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"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
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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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"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 read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
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"I am against the notion of style in itself."
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
Literature
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"I think all writing is done through memory."
Memory
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
Books
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