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“If one knows hell as home, then is returning to hell a homecoming? Even in hell, were there such a place, one would know where the fires were just a little cooler, where the rocks were just a little less jagged.”

“‘Yes, but them people liked it, Jim. Did you see their faces? They had to know them was lies, but they wanted to believe. What do you make of that?’

“‘Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ‘em.’”

"And so, after these books, the Bible was the least interesting of all. I could not enter it, did not want to enter it, and then understood that I recognized it as a tool of my enemy. I chose the word 'enemy', and still do, as 'oppressor' necessarily supposes a victim."

"I will not let myself, my mind drown in fear and outrage. I will be outraged as a matter of course. But my interest is in how these marks that I am scratching on this page can mean anything at all. If they can have meaning, then life can have meaning, then I can have meaning"