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Doesn’t that sound like God to you? This big stupid, invulnerable thing that resembles us and whose creations are more intelligent than it is? The Bible left out that part, but it would explain a great deal.

— Lucius Shepard The Skinny Girl (2011)

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Every object, the old man had said, is but an interpretation of every other object. There is no sure knowledge, only endless process.

Green Eyes (1984)

All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

“Find your own answers, your own salvation. If you can’t do that,” said Donnell, “then to Hell with you.”

Green Eyes (1984)

Everything I've ever known has been no more than a powerful conviction.

A Walk in the Garden (2003)

I yearned for that future. I wanted to live in the illusion that persuades us that true-life experience can be obtained on the Internet.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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