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Nobody deserves this. “Please,” she prayed, and wasn’t sure what she asked.
Whatever it was, it was not granted.

— Connie Willis Doomsday Book (1992)

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Doomsday Book (1992)

Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

Remake (1994)

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Bellwether (1996)

A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.

Fire Watch (1985)

“Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.”

Fire Watch (1985)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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