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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."

"You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it."

"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."

"It is one thing to believe and another to know."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."

"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
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