"the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Self Quotes #Names Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Co-existence or no existence.”
“Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2007). “Vintage Baker”, p.86, Vintage
“All haters are losers, even when they win.”
“The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.”

Source : Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.167
“The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”
“Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?”

Source : "The final pit stop". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2000.

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