“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
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“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
― The Big Book of Hell
― The Big Book of Hell
“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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