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"All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say."
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"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."
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"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"
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"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."
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"I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness."
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"This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people-because, surely, Wally was nice-would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer-and harder, if not impossible, to conceal."
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"You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too."
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"Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos."
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"What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid, they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress-lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!"
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"[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals."
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"I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the New Testaments we have, let us bring them out to an open square or up to the summit of a mountain, and while we all kneel let one man speak to God thus: 'Take this book back again; we men, such as we now are, are not fit to go in for this sort of thing, it only makes us unhappy,' This is my proposal, that like those inhabitants in Gerasa we beseech Christ to depart from our borders. This would be an honest and human way of talking -- rather different from the disgusting hypocritical priestly fudge..."
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"The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!"
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
Family
"This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy."
Power
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
Man
"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
People
"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"
Accountability
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
God
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Friendship
"They be marching hand in hand, like going to war."
Society
"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."
Time
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