"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

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"And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?"

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"They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

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"We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe."

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"In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was matched by that of the farmer; the once-green ferny lives crushed into coal's fossiliferous strata were no more anonymous and obliterated than Clarence's own life would soon be, in a wink of earth's tremendous time. Without Biblical blessing the physical universe became sherry horrible and disgusting. All fleshy acts became vile, rather than merely some. The reality of men slaying lambs and cattle, fish and fowl to sustain their own bodies took on an aspect of grisly comedy--the blood-soaked selfishness of a cosmic mayhem."

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"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

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