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Quotes by E.A. Bucchianeri

Isnt it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

(Marlowes) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a place invented by men.

Theres nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.

Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before ...

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

... insanity is never reasonable.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nations promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising icebreaker featuring all the strategy of Poker, minus the cards, mixed with a dash of danger from Russian Roulette, without the revolver.

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, Well done.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

Im all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,”

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”