Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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