“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“The only excuse for God is that He does not exist.”
— Stendhal
As quoted in "A Sentimental Education" by James Huneker, Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 43 (1908), p. 230, also quoted in Albert Camus's The Rebel and Nietzsche's Ecce Homo.
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