# Quote — Lin Carter, The Wizard of Zao

> The notion that heresy is a crime of the soul, to be cured by the chastisement of the body, he pointed out in his amiable way, contained an essential error. For the soul has no real connection to the body, merely residing therein for the while. To punish the body for the sins of the soul was, therefore, about as irrational as to burn down a tenement building because it had temporarily housed a criminal.

- Author: [Lin Carter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter.md)
- Book: [The Wizard of Zao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter/the-wizard-of-zao.md)
- Page: 60
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter/the-wizard-of-zao/the-notion-that

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> The expression on his features was one of a pained disapproval, similar to that of a gentleman of the cloth when observing the young folks behaving like young folks.

p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter/the-wizard-of-zao/the-expression-on-his.md)

> This life, my dear bird, consists of a haphazard sequence of accidental meetings and partings, very few of which can ever be anticipated, avoided or fully understood. The element of sheer Chance, my friend, conflicting as it does with the first principles of Causation, denies any premeditated plan on the part of Destiny. Destiny, therefore, may only be defined as the sum total of one’s accumulated experiences, which are themselves accidental and purposeless. ‘Purpose,’ you deduce from this, is an interpretation imposed upon a sequence of events after the fact.”

p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter/the-wizard-of-zao/this-life-my-dear.md)

> Day dawned, as day generally does, in so spectacular a manner as to seem rather show-offy were it to be encountered among any less significant meteorological phenomena.

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lin-carter/the-wizard-of-zao/day-dawned-as-day.md)