“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
Kirilov, Part III, Ch. VI, "A busy night"
The Possessed (1872)
“I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.”
Source: Song of Susannah
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