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In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.


Jonathon Miller

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ALICE MILLER Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
ALICE MILLER Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, ma...
ALICE MILLER Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regressio...
ALICE MILLER I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restles...
HENRY MILLER When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.
KIRSTEN MILLER The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
ARTHUR MILLER Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
HENRY MILLER If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
OLIN MILLER My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
HENRY MILLER Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, ...
MADELINE MILLER Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lo...
MADELINE MILLER When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
DONALD MILLER And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
MADELINE MILLER I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and t...
HENRY MILLER