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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."
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
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"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
"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."
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
"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."
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
"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."
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