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- Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who…
- Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
- How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because…
- I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
- So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh...…
- Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones…
- Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS…
- Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once…
- I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how…
- I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see…
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