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“If, as I suspected at the time, I was a one-book writer, I wanted to be the kind of one-book writer who writes only one book.”
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“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”
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“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”
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“If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.”
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“... all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.”
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“Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God. ... The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
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“There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.”
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“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened — about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States — just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.”