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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."
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"The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes."

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

"In this sinful world, there is no such thing as enjoying life; not in a world where everybody is happily having a bubble bath of sin. John 14"

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."

"Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck."

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

"The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled."

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
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