"It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge."

-- Patrick SÃ¼skind

#World Quotes #Refuge Quotes #Stills Quotes

“What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.”
“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.”
“In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.”
“We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.”
“For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, ch. 6, 1961.
“From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.”
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.”

Source : "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.
“I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.”

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