Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
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There is a god within us.
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Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
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There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.
