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She once asked Beckett what he thought of God. He said: "Nothing. Nothing," then added, "The bastard, He doesn't exist."

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Wednesday, August 30, 1995
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Quote #2523 from Samuel Beckett as quoted in AT LUNCH WITH: Edna O'Brien; Casting a Cold Eye (August 30, 1995) (James F. Clarity) (New York Times)

It's strange you never start out life with the intention of becoming bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

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Quote #1817 from Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76 (Mona Simpson, Lewis Buzbee) (Summer 1983) (The Paris Review) interviewing Raymond Carver

I want the sense of physicality, flesh and blood, body language. I want the words to act physically on the reader or hearer.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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Quote #1718 from Adrienne Rich on ‘Tonight No Poetry Will Serve’ (Kate Waldman) (March 2, 2011) (The Paris Review)

One thing that happened to Milgram back in New Haven during the days of the experiment was that he kept running into people he'd watched from behind the one-way glass. It gave him a funny feeling, seeing those people going about their everyday business in New Haven and knowing what they would do to Mr. Wallace if ordered to. Now that his research results are in and you've though about it, you can get this funny feeling too. You don't need a one-way glass. A glance in your own mirror may serve just as well.

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Sunday, February 1, 1970
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Quote #1700 from If Hitler Asked You To Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably (Esquire) (February 1970) by Philip Meyer

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

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Quote #1669 from Esquire, July 1968 by Susan Sontag