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"I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it."
"If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education."
"If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers."
"The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal."
"One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it."
"It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime."
"I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too."
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
"My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up."
"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
"When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored."
"I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me."
"If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too."
"The universe without music would be madness."
"A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country."
"I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's."
"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."
"They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure."
"I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one."
"When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man."
