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“Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
― Woody Allen

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“Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”
― Victor Stenger

tags: religions, science

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“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: chaplin, rain

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“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

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For book lovers who hold equal inherent inalienable rights sacred. Let's have a tea party. ...more

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Join the self centered author Haresh Daswani as he discusses his book, Evolution of Insanity, hailed to be one of the worst books in existence by an a ...more

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A group for authors to help fellow authors in book promotion, review pools, and other things

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