The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.

Mary Doria Russell


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Then he smiled into her eyes and asked, in the dry academic tones of an astronomer discussing a theoretical point with a colleague, 'How long do you suppose I can go on loving you more every day?' And he devised for her a calculus of love, which approached infinity as a limit, and made her smile again.

Mary Doria Russell


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Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future.

Mary Doria Russell

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[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

Mary Doria Russell


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The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Mary Doria Russell

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Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham should have taken the babies from the cities. The babies were innocent.�

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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

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Tradition was safety; change was danger.

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Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -

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