Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christ...
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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then ou...
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Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be ...
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The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followe...
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In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self...
