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Religious disintegration began with colonization.

Religious Disintegration Colonization
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
Food Minority Hunger Majority
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Don’t you see? There were no doctors in Paradise. Disease came after doctors.

Doctors Paradise Disease
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If women were necessary, God would have one.
Women Necessary God One
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If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason

Done Always Been Reason
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Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

Make Objectivity Religion Liars
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Love means understanding, trust, sharing and giving.

Love Means Trust Sharing
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I’m not a proud person because I love making an impact on peoples’ lives.

Proud Person Love Impact
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Women’s ability to multitask better than men indicate that women will actually make great leaders.

Women Ability Women Great leader
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A woman must be ready to be in a man’s house before she gets in there. If not, at the end of the day, she will walk out of the marriage before anyone knows it.

Woman Ready End Day
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By perseverance, the snail reaches the ark. Never give up or sit down and grieve. Keep pressing on and the sky will be your limit.

Perseverance Reaches Ark Give up
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Emotional Promiscuity Sentiment Sentimentality
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Cruel Else Grow Just
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Function Higher HigherLevel Level
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Even Facts Forever Lost
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Beasts Culture Huge Risks
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Against Artist Blow Defiance
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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Affair Cannot Children Divorce
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Arm Available Beautiful BeautifulWoman
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Anyway Good GoodIdea Idea
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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Believe Better Dance Guys
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Camera Child Giving Hands
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Achieve Argue Awakens Certain
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Art Consciousness Even Exacerbate
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Always Bit Dying Every
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Becomes Enough Hands He
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

America Big Center Eye
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Century Each Event Horror
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In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

America Blows Bullets Cell
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

About Act Bad Creative
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Borders Democracy Discovers Far
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Alimony Class Curse Writing
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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

America Few FewPeople Irreverent
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Afraid Cats Cockroaches Horses
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Always Another Being Bit
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Battles Gain Given Honor
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

American AmericanLife AmericanMen Because
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Count History Individuals Most
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I hate everything which is not in myself.

Everything Hate Myself Which
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

AllTheWorld Blood Cry Dirty
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Anxiety Man Natural Role
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Absurd Here Huge IThink
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Awful Both Evil Exceptional
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