“Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.”

—  Richard Pryor

"The time of his life", in The Guardian (7 June 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/columns/laughingmatters/story/0,12231,1229891,00.html

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