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Each of the several times I've gone back to re-read Wonder Boys I've taken something different from it. While I still remain in awe of Chabon's magnificent prose and expansive vocabulary its still the protagonist that keeps me coming back for more.Ha ...more "
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Copyright © 1965 by John Williams Introduction copyright © 2003 by John McGahern All rights reserved. Cover image: Thomas Eakins, The Thinker, Portrait of Louis H. Kenton (detail), 1900
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
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“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
“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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