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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”
― Fever Pitch
― Fever Pitch

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions

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