"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."

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"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

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"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."

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"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

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"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

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"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed."

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