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- God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
(William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist")
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- The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We comes from God, I from the Devil.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
(Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame")
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- Speak of the devil, and the devil shall appear.
(Stephenie Meyer, "New Moon")
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- Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
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- And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
(Robert Penn Warren, "All the King's Men")
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- If you had your way you'd pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you'd leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you'd have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn't go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.
(Ray Bradbury, "Dandelion Wine")
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- Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro.
(Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter")
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- The Galvanick Lucipher is of antique design. Ghnxh, who is about a hundred years old, can only smile in condescension at Waterhouse's U.S Navy flashlight. In the sotto voce one might use to correct an enourmous social gaffe, he explains that the galvanic lucifer is of such a superior design as to make any further reference to the Navy model a grating embarrassment for everyone concerned.
(Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon")
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- The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
(Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein")
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- Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
(Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein")
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- More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
(Margaret Atwood, "The Blind Assassin")
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- The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
(Kelley Armstrong, "The Reckoning")
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