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An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

— Charles Williams War in Heaven (1930)

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If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

War in Heaven (1930)

She was dead, but her very death heightened that word "supernatural"; it was what she, not being, was.

Christianity and life ought to be one.

The Forgiveness of Sin (1942)

Deep, deeper than we believe, lie the roots of sin; it is in the good that they exist; it is in the good that they thrive and send up sap and produce the black fruit of hell.

The Descent of the Dove (1939)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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