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Can Such Things Be? QUOTES

Can Such Things Be? QUOTES

1 " Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! "

― Ambrose Bierce , Can Such Things Be?

2 " The man was Halpin Frayser.  He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead.  "

― Ambrose Bierce , Can Such Things Be?

3 " He wrote with terrible rapidity, the twig in his fingers rilling blood without renewal; but in the middle of a sentence his hands denied their service to his will, his arms fell to his sides, the book to the earth; and powerless to move or cry out, he found himself staring into the sharply drawn face and blank, dead eyes of his own mother, standing white and silent in the garments of the grave! "

― Ambrose Bierce , Can Such Things Be?

4 " When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: "My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away! "

― Ambrose Bierce , Can Such Things Be?

5 " Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich. "

― Ambrose Bierce , Can Such Things Be?