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"I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."

"I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person."

"If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now."

"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"

"When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition."

"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough."

"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."

"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"

"I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate."
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