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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
Court
"One's life has many compartments."
Life
"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
Man
"I also found being called Sir rather silly."
Being
"A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work."
Work
"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."
God
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
Cancer
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
American
"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
Attitude
"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
Birthday
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