Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.John Fowles
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile that what might not be, is.
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I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
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