
“Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.”
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“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this land.”
― A Walk Across America
― A Walk Across America
“It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus; All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a race car. Is any of this getting through to you?”
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“Bright mornings, days when I want so much, I want nothing. Just this life and no more.”
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