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"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"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."

"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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"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."

"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."

"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."

"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
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