“Christ," he remarked, puzzled, "this is a dingy way to die.”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 373)
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"Satan's Religion" in American Mercury (August 1954), p. 41
“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”
Q&A session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nxanN9BM&t=2060s at Graz Technical University, November 2017
Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 4
Context: "There was a later time when sincere men tried to build an organization as wide as the world to secure the peace of the world. It had been tried before and it had failed before. Perhaps if it failed this time it would not be tried again for a very long while. The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad. The final realization of it was so close that it could be touched with the fingertips. A gambler wouldn't have given odds on it either way. It teetered, and it almost seemed as though it would succeed. Then members of that group interfered."
"And it failed, O'Claire?"
"No. It succeeded, Foley, as in the other case. It succeeded in so twisted a fashion that the Devil himself was puzzled as to whether he had gained or lost ground by it. And he isn't easily puzzled."
“Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.”
Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 6, “In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale” (p. 61)
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”
Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)
