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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

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