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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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