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Love in the Ruins Quotes
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English
Undergraduate 4
05/13/2012

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Dr. Tom More

200

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Speak of the devil. A man takes the urinal next to me though there are six urinals and mine is the end. I frown. Here is minor breach of the unspoken rules between men for the use of the urinals.
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Dr. Tom More about Max

106

 

Definition
Here's an oddity. ___ the unbeliever, a lapsed Jew, believes in the orderliness of creation, acts on it with energy and clarity.
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Dr. Tom More

106

 

 

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I, the believer, having swallowed the whole Thing, God Jews Christ Church, find the world a madhouse and a madhouse home.
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More about Max

106

 

 

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___, the athiest sees things like Saint Thomas Aquinas, ranged, orderly, connected up.
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Dr. Tom More - Samantha 

12

 

 

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The best of times were after mass on summer evenings when _____ and I would walk home in the violet dusk....
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Doris to Tom

71

 

 

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"You don't understand a purely spiritual relationship."
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Tom 

181

Definition
Property rights Sunday is a major feast day in the A.C.C. A blue banner beside the crucifix shows Christ holding the American home, which has a picket fence, in his two hands.
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Tom

6

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I, for example, am a Roman Catholic, albiet a bad one. I believe in the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, in God the Father, in the election of the Jews, in Jesus Christ His Son our Lord who founded the Church on Peter his first vicar.
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Tom 6
Definition
Some years ago, however, I stopped eating Christ in Communion, stopped going to mss, and have since fallen into a disorderly life.
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Tom 6
Definition
I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellow man hardly at all.
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Tom

6

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If John is right, then I am a liar. Nevertheless, I still believe.
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Tom on Descartes

191

 

 

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But why should I be afraid? Tommorrow -- today -- I meet with the Director and hear the triumphant news about my lapsometer, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher____  ripped the body loose from the mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.
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Tom on his mistake with Victor

149

 

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____ takes me as far as the Little Napoleon. There I make a mistake, a small one with small consequences but a mistake nevertheless, which I'd ordinaryily not have made.
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Tom

Victor - helps Tom - African American

Leroy - White bartender?

150

Definition

In that same second that he speaks, ____ knows better, for in that second _____ steps back and turns toward me and I can see that ____ sees that ____ is with me, sees it even before I can say, too late, "Thank you _____ for healping me up the hill."

 

 

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Tom 

153

 

 

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 The terror comes from the piteousness, from good gone wrong and not knowing it, from Southern sweetness and cruelty, God why do I stay here?

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Tom

153

talking about himself as the new Christ

 

 

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It is the new Christ, the spotted Christ, the maculate Christ, the sinful Christ. The old Christ died for our sins and it didn't work, we were not reconciled. The new Christ shall reconcile man with his sins. The new Christ lies drunk in a ditch.

 

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Doris to Tom
254
Definition
"My God, what is it you do in church?"
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Tom
254
Definition
What she didn't understand, she being a spiritual being and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread of the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.
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Moira 259
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"I love classical music," whispers...
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Samantha 260
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"I wouldn't have missed this Poppa..."
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Tom on students 219
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____are, if truth be known, a bad lot. En masses they're as fickle as a mob, manipulable by any professor who'll stoop to it. They have, moreover, an infinite capacity for repeating dull truths and old lies with the insistence of self-discovery.
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Colley 389
Definition
"These things take time, Tom."
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Art Immelman
363
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"Doc, we operate on a cardinal principle, which we never violate. We never never 'do' anything to anybody. We only help people do what they want to do. We facilitate social interaction in order to isolate factors. If people show a tendency to interact in a certain way, we facilitate that interaction in order to accumulate reliable data."
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Tom
386
Definition
Read the story in the sunny quarter of a golf shelter. Hm. It seems the murderers who have terrorized this district for the past ten years turned out to be neither black guerrillas nor white Knotheads but rather a love community in the swamp. The leader is quoted as saying his family believes in love, the environment, and freedom of the individual.
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