"Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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