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- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or…
- When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
- As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't…
- But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence…
- You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
- That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at…
- Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not…
- Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
- The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has…
- What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
- Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in…
- Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest…
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