"I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there."

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Source : "RJ Hollingdale" by Carol Diethe, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2001.

R. J. Hollingdale

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“Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.”
“Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.”
“When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.”
“In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.”
“I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.”
“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source : Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.47, MIT Press
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”

Source : "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.
“It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people.”

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