"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

God, Responsibility, World

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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

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"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early."

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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

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