"Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
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"The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry."
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"So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget."
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"That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes."
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"Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?"
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"You become who you pretend to be."
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"The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty."
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"There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes."
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"I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community."
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"He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down."
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"But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place."
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"[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think."
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"Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours."
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"Nothing in this book is true."
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"I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I."
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"If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist."
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"What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?"
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"The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
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"I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write."
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"On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar."
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