"A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluateâ€”whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.”
“It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before”
“John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.”
“Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.”
“Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.”
“Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.”

Source : "Life and Lies of an Icon". Book by Richard Witts, en.wikiquote.org. 1995.
“Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.”
“I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.”

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