Quote #40

Now the perpetrating of miracles constitutes a brazen attempt to loosen up the universe. When you set up something as MIRACLE, you deny the very concept of FACT, establish a shadowy and spurious court infested by every variety of coyote and shady fixer beyond Court of Fact.

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  2. Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.
  3. No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
  4. Son, never listen to a priest or a policeman...the only thing they have is the key to the shithouse.
  5. No job too dirty for the fucking scientists.
  6. Survive, it's the name of the game. Would I give a shit about these people?
  7. Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to…
  8. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.

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