

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451

“I grok in fullness.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
― Dune
― Dune
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