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"For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there."
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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
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"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
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"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."
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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."
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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."
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"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs."
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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
Sacrifice
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
Art
"The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water."
Nature
"You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his."
Spiritual
"You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?"
Friendship
"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
Love
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
Creativity
"How little we know of what there is to know."
Knowledge
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