Ibid., p. 286
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Não acredito na paisagem.
“I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
On Stonehenge, at alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf <br class="br">Usenet <br class="br">Context: I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt. <br class="br">as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2 <br class="br">undated quotes
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"God"
Lyrics, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
“I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in "Breaking the Last Taboo" (1996) by James A. Haught
As quoted in Jesus: Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
As quoted in The New York Times (19 April 1936)
Variant: I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt.<br>as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2 <br class="br">undated quotes
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"The Answer" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50088/the-answer-56d22cd8d69d0, p. 33 <br class="br">The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
John Knowles book A Separate Peace
Finny, on his trust in Gene.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 163
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”
Fran Lebowitz (1950) author and public speaker from the United States
Reported by Steve Pinker, " I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard. Ask me anything. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a67x4/i_am_steve_pinker_a_cognitive_psychologist_at/c8uiccn", Reddit.com (March 12, 2013). <br class="br">Other
