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Spiritualism: Meet the Authors.

"Behold the secret to happiness."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

"Remember, if I'm ever on life support unplug me... then plug me back in. See if that works."

"Today we studied Matthew, the first in a four-part series."

"You seem troubled, Pastor. Is anything worrying you...I mean aside from the sins of the world, the vanity of humankind, man's inhumanity to man..."

'I used to spring forward. Now all I can do is fall back.'

"Any distinguishing 'PARSONAL' characteristics?"

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

The older I get, the more introspective I get, or is that retrospective?'

'Oh, yeah? -- Well, my true inner self can whip your true inner self!'

Voltaire

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Pastor, may we share a message with you about humility?"

'Do you mean 'who cares what the meaning of life is,' or that 'who cares' IS the meaning of life?'

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Bishop with a crozier case.

John Galsworthy

'How am I supposed to meditate with your nose whistling?'

"Time heals all wounds. It also kills every living thing."

"I wish you people would just read the blog."

'They say ninety is the new eighty.'

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Couldn't you have used a smaller font?

"Don't worry, it's nothing."

'All that we learn from history is that we don't learn from history...'

'These people have terrible attention spans - I'll just bring them ten commandments at a time.'

William Blake.

"O.K., let's see what all the fuss is about."

'Meaning of life, eh? -- Who wants to know?'

'Where do you see yourself not getting tenure in seven years?'

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...