"That's where all of us are standing now,……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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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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