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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
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"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
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"I still go to a Christian priory for retreats."
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"The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road."
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"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
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"Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried."
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"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."
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"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness."
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"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right."
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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
Creativity
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
Christian
"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
Life
"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
Poverty
"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
Experience
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
Experience
"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."
Writing
"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."
Writing
"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."
Sex
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
Intellectual
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