"Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die."

-- Charles Bukowski

“I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what does the Shari'a say?" And he said, "Well, of course it doesn't justify suicide bombs," but he didn't seem to know where the Shari'a came from or what it was all about. The more I asked people in my family as well as friends, the more I realized that there seemed to be widespread ignorance in the Muslim community. And that's something which I actually found to be the case over the next two and a half, three years I spent writing the book.”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?”
“A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.”
“Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.”

Source : Elizabeth Towne (2007). “Life Power and How to Use It”, p.69, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.”
“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
“Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.”

Source : "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

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