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“I admire anyone who's genuinely trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment and live a peaceful life. But religious dogma is a barrier to that. The last thing a dogmatist wants is for anyone to be enlightened, any more than a pharmaceutical company wants anybody cured.”

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“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

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“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

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