"In America everything is fantastical."

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Alejo Carpentier

#America Quotes

“But the reality is that we are a folk band.”
“Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.”
“The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.”

Source : Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.18, TAN Books
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge
“Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.”
“Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.”
“What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.”

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