"I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god."

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Source : Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

Bruce Chatwin

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“If I'm playing a fat person, then I actually eat a lot of cakes and as much as I can. If I'm playing a person in shape, then I'll increase my intensity of boxing training. It's really dependent. It kind of allows me to take whatever specific character I want.”

Source : "Guy Burnet, Mortdecai Actor: On Boxing Every Day and Staying Balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“We worship a mysterious not an anthropomorphic God.”
“Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”

Source : Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
“Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.”
“Every revolution has its counter-revolution.”
“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan
“All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.”

Source : Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books
“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.”

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