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"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."
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"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."
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"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."
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"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
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"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
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"Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!"
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"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
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"You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. "Ahh, how to be happy?"
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"Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones."
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"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."
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"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Risk
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
Friendship
"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."
Crisis
"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Life
"We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it."
Suffering
"Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately."
Literature
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."
Memory
"Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador."
Society
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Advice
"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
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