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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Children see magic because they look for it.
Evidently, once you accept that your wife slept with God, extraordinary events seem sort of commonplace.
With influence comes power, with power, abuse.
I don’t know if now, having lived and died the life of a man, I can write about little-boy love, but remembering it now, it seems the cleanest pain I’ve known. Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn’t. Perhaps it is lost to us when we become sexual creatures, and no magic can bring it back. Perhaps I only remember it because I spent so long trying to understand the
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Funny how easy heartbreak can come.
‘You think too much. Thinking will bring you nothing but suffering. Be simple.’
Why would the Lord make sin feel good, then condemn man for it?’
the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
there was an innate kindness born in women that he’d never seen in a man,
All fear comes from trying to see the future,
Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt.
‘Blessed are the dumbfucks for they, uh - I don’t know - they shall never be disappointed.’
