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  1. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    {Saint Anthony} said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.
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  3. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.
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  5. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    the most improper job of any man, even saints {who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on}, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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  6. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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  7. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    One does not cross-examine a saint.
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  8. Diana Gabaldon _ Drums of Autumn

    What's that you're doing, Sassenach?""Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so far as I can," I added."Gizmo?" he said doubtfully. "That will be a saint's name?""I shouldn't think so, though you never know, what with people named Pantaleon and Onuphrius. Or Ferreolus.""Ferreolus? I dinna think I ken that one." He leaned back, hands linked over his knee."One of my favorites," I told him, carefully filling in the birthdate and time of birth--even that was an estimate, poor thing. There were precisely two bits of unequivocal information on this birth certificate--the date and the name of the doctor who's delivered him."Ferreolus," I went on with some new enjoyment, "is the patron saint of sick poultry. Christian martyr. He was a Roman tribune and a secret Christian. Having been found out, he was chained up in the prison cesspool to await trial--I suppose the cells must have been full. Sounds rather daredevil; he slipped his chains and escaped through the sewer. They caught up with him, though, dragged him back and beheaded him."Jamie looked blank."What has that got to do wi' chickens?""I haven't the faintest idea. Take it up with the Vatican," I advised him."Mmphm. Aye, well, I've always been fond of Saint Guignole, myself." I could see the glint in his eye, but couldn't resist."And what's he the patron of?""He's involved against impotence." The glint got stronger. "I saw a statue of him in Brest once; they did say it had been there for a thousand years. 'Twas a miraculous statue--it had a cock like a gun muzzle, and--""A ?""Well, the size wasna the miraculous bit," he said, waving me to silence. "Or not quite. The townsfolk say that for a thousand years, folk have whittled away bits of it as holy relics, and yet the cock is still as big as ever." He grinned at me. "They do say that a man w' a bit of St. Guignole in his pocket can last a night and a day without tiring.""Not with the same woman, I don't imagine," I said dryly. "It does rather make you wonder what he did to merit sainthood, though, doesn't it?"He laughed."Any man who's had his prayer answered could tell yet that, Sassenach."{PP. 841-842}
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Speaker for the Dead

    As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him {Stephen}. Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus
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