"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

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"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."

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"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"

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"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."

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"Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it."

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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life."

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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."

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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos."

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