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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apart

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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I dont think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. – Christopher Hitchens

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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. – Khalil Gibran

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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. Its a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. – Ruth St. Denis

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