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"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."

"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."

"I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know."

"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven."

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."

"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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"You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better."

"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"

"Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower."

"There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is."

"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."

"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer."

"Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities."

"If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
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