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“Nothing brings people together more quickly (though often spuriously and deceitfully)
than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all manner
of fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, the
erudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one has
to lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and be
simple”
― The Joke
than shared melancholy; this atmosphere of quiet understanding, which puts all manner
of fears and inhibitions to sleep and is easily comprehended by the refined and vulgar, the
erudite and unlettered, is the most simple route to rapport, yet extremely rare: for one has
to lay aside cultivated restraints, cultivated gestures and facial expressions, and be
simple”
― The Joke
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and solu (...), where they dance in joy...”
― The Joke
― The Joke
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
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“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
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