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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
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To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
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No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.
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The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.
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Civilization is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
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June 19, 1947
(age 77)
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