"True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance."

-- Mark Thomas

#Reality Quotes #Religion Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.”
“The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.”
“The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.”
“Hippies are so phoney and fake.”
“I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.”
“This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.”
“I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2012.
“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse

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