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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
I don’t know what I’m looking for. ” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.
Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?