"A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later."

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Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “A Bigamist's Daughter”, p.82, A&C Black

Alice McDermott

#Sooner Or Later Quotes

“It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...”
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”
“People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.”
“The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.”
“If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.”
“I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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