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"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."
"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."
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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say."
"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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