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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
“Well, you know what they say about the devil," said my father. "He spent a thousand years trying to learn the language so he could tempt them, and then he gave it up, and that's why no Basques ever go to hell.”
― Sweet Promised Land
― Sweet Promised Land
“When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead."
Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.”
― A Scanner Darkly
Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.”
― A Scanner Darkly
“This is an Art project, not a Peace project.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“There was Jaones Ergela, or Crazy Joh, who had lost his mind from loneliness in the mountains and had not seen it coming soon enough to shoot himself, as the others like him had done.”
― Sweet Promised Land
― Sweet Promised Land
“What was worse, she was also convinced that, with his habit of talking to strangers, he would be led astray in Paris, and, as she put it, get knocked over the head by some villainous Apache, and as a result never make it to the Pyrenees.”
― Sweet Promised Land
― Sweet Promised Land
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