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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."
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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
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"When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream."
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"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."
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"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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"When in doubt, do it."
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"Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty."
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"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
Old
"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
Life
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Family
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
Fool
"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."
Work
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
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