

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
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“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
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