“Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

— Philip José Farmer

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 176)
Context: Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

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American science fiction writer 1918–2009

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