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“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

“Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.”

“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.”

“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.”

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”

“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.”

“We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The devil never sleeps. He keeps me company.”

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Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream.”

Source: The New Land

“A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.”

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Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”

“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

“Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.”

“Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.”

“To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.”