“The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.”
“An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.”
“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.”
“If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.”
“She was dead, but her very death heightened that word "supernatural"; it was what she, not being, was.”
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