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“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him.
The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus "ate and drank, but did not defecate."
Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the creator of man.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus "ate and drank, but did not defecate."
Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the creator of man.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Forse possiamo cominciare daccapo, in una terra nuova e ricca – in California, dove cresce la frutta. Cominceremo da capo.
Ma noi non possiamo cominciare. Solo i neonati possono cominciare. Tu e io... be', noi siamo quello ch'è stato. La rabbia di un momento, le mille immagini, questo siamo. Questa terra, questa terra rossa, è noi; e gli anni di carestia e gli anni di polvere e gli anni d'inondazione siamo noi. Non possiamo cominciare daccapo. L'amarezza che abbiamo venduto al compratore di scarti... lui se l'è pigliata, certo, ma noi ce l'abbiamo ancora. E quando gli uomini del padrone ci hanno detto di andarcene, questo siamo; e quando il trattore ha buttato giù la nostra casa, questo siamo fino alla morte.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
Ma noi non possiamo cominciare. Solo i neonati possono cominciare. Tu e io... be', noi siamo quello ch'è stato. La rabbia di un momento, le mille immagini, questo siamo. Questa terra, questa terra rossa, è noi; e gli anni di carestia e gli anni di polvere e gli anni d'inondazione siamo noi. Non possiamo cominciare daccapo. L'amarezza che abbiamo venduto al compratore di scarti... lui se l'è pigliata, certo, ma noi ce l'abbiamo ancora. E quando gli uomini del padrone ci hanno detto di andarcene, questo siamo; e quando il trattore ha buttato giù la nostra casa, questo siamo fino alla morte.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Whatever became of the moment
when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words,out we come, bloodied and squalling...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction
and time is its only measure.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words,out we come, bloodied and squalling...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction
and time is its only measure.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
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