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“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.”

Men Church London Rings Scream Bells Church Bells

Book:Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.”

“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”

Men Hands Church Sleep White Enemy Worst Fields Bed Rings Ease Encounters Harvest Altars Stretching Wheat Worst Enemy Indolence

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.”

Ifs Made Sound Church Blood Madness Slavery Raised Rings Excellent Torture Sugar Bells Organs Adultery Hideous Homicide Church Bells

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson