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“Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty.”
― Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
― Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
“What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.”
― Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
― Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
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