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"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
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"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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