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"What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?"

"I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order."

"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument."
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"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."

"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."

"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."

"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."

"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."

"He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast."

"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."
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