"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Voltaire, French Writer

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

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"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."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

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

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

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"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"

"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."

"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

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