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"Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand."
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"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."
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"The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men."
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"The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance."
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"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."
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"Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand."
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"For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion."
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"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."
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"It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!"
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"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.."
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"Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence."
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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."
Relationship
"It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails."
Judgment
"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."
Horror
"Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She's practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot."
Religion
"Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins."
Creativity
"The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way."
Spiritual
"People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism."
Spiritual
"We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die."
Mental Health
"Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words."
Religion
"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
Healing
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