Chris

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Chris’s Quotes

“This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: god, religion

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“The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: humor, murder

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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

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“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: empathy, understanding

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“Anytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids to free herself up for her Internet boyfriend, the question I always ask is not, like every other tongue-clucking pundit in the country, how could this have happened? but why doesn't this happen every day?”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: anger, madness, shooting

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