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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an ...more

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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

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Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

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The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. "May I ask you a question?""Yes.""Have you ever thought you were Christ?""I can't say...more

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Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God kno...more

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When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

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Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze ...more

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They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, ...more

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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all o...more

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They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Dar...more

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...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more...more

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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.