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"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

"Christians are the hope of any country."

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

"Any bridge you refuse to burn gives Satan an invitation and re-entry point into your life."
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"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."


"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."


"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."


"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."


"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."


"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."


"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."


"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
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