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"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
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"In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters."
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"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."
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"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
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"Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come."
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"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel."
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"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
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"The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us."
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"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
Mortality

"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Love

"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Temptation

"Punctuality is the thief of time."
Satire

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Love

"Most people are boring and stupid."
Society

"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
God

"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is."
Wisdom

"The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability."
Wisdom
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