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“If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?”

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Joseph Heller was an American novelist known for his satirical and black humor style. His novel 'Catch-22' is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and has had a profound impact on literature. more

“People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.”

People Thinking World Should May Sometimes Beautiful Humanity Individual Space Greater Too Much Strange Exciting Communicate Stranger Enjoyed Isolation Ancestor Heretic Strangeness Envied

Author:John Fowles

“I think naturally my orientation is from my father.”

Thinking Father Dad Orientation

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.”

Persons Strong Walks Morning Wind Late England Curiosity Ancient Legs Pairs March Bites Probability Disagreeable

Book:THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

“Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.”

Men Social Grows Natural Tree Evolution Creatures Isolated Sailor Hermits

Author:John Fowles

“I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.”

Thinking Legislation

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.”

Heart Persons Problem Mystery Logical Closest Propositions Accounting

Author:Rudolf Bultmann

“It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.”

Knows Men World Needs Giving Humans May Said Reality Life Is Speak Mystery Masters Myth Favors Human Life Demon Dependent Worldly Wrath Objectivity Transcendent Riddle

Author:Rudolf Bultmann

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