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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
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