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- We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the… — Jacques Ellul
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed… — John Quincy Adams
- Books are not seldom talismans and spells. — William Cowper
- When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our… — Harry Hay
- The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey
- My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach. — Dani Shapiro
- Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson
- Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:… — Anne Fadiman
- In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each… — Emily Rodda
- He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found… — Cormac McCarthy
- Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a… — Kate Forsyth
- The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck