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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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

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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
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"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
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"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
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"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
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"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."
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