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“Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.”
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“... a wind came up and ran along the rock base lifting the sand like the edge of a carpet.”
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“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
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“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
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“... while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.”
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“Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.”
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“Nothing is more central to a woman's life than the ability to control her childbearing. And it often seems that nothing is more central to authoritarian religions' belief systems than to prevent her from doing that.”
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“The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.”