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I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
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I always play with everybody, said Honoré. It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people's doorsteps. That is the business of literature.
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We don't go to Fort Chicago, said Ta-Kumsaw. We go to the holy place.
A church? asked Alvin.
Ta-Kumsaw laughed. You White people, when you make a place holy you build walls so nothing of the land can get in. Your god is nothing and nowhere, so you build a church with nothing alive inside, a church that could be anywhere, it doesn't matter—nothing and nowhere.
Well what does make a place holy? asked Alvin.
Because that's where the Red man talks to the land, and the land answers.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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"'A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'" Peggy quoted. "'Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.'"
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With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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