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My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Anguish Battle Been Between
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In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

Christ Cross God Man
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Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Been Dead Dreams Few
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Certainty Clearly Clumsy Divine
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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Attain Awe Deep Despairing
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Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.
Again Bold Come Free
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Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men.

Eat Fat Food God
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What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
Alike Deep Down How
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God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

God Hates More Ten
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Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

Austere Behind Each Face
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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Aware Everyday Happiness Like
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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Autobiography Report Not
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Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.

Both Christ Creed Every
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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Ability Activity Circle Embrace
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Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

Buried Crusade Free God
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Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Beneath Earth Feet Heaven
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May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

Again Alphabet Control Dangerous
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Best Come Far I Love
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Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Care Couples Every Feel
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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art Down Drawing Everyone
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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Just Like Mecca New
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
Ever Floor Painted Risks
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All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Actually Mysteries Life Live
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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

After Brings Certain Certain Point
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
Every Man Folly Greatest
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Back Ending Entertainment Go
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Brush Paint You Your
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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

Gold He Head Hit
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It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
Bad Being Bunch Country
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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

Between Bush Difference Evil
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I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Drink Much You
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Art Dance Drive Every
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Able Art Before Beginning
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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Best Ever Now Right
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I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

Bad Comedians Death Dried
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Began Early Few Funny
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

Alternative Becoming Being Comedians
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Books Coming Early Ghost
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I'm not familiar with the metric system.
Familiar Metric System
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Anything Butter Fact Few
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Beat Had Inside Me
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
Down Had Humanity Reaction
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We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

Alive Eaten Evil Here
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Adolescence Based Because Bill
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Exactly
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Acting Great Horrible Just
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

Doing End Go Great
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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Back Before Comedians Doing
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