“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
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The Last Lecture (2007)
“All right,” she said. “You’ve convinced me. Men are good for something, after all.”
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 23 (p. 429)
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.”
Free Inquiry (Spring 1982) <!-- p. 9 -->
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Context: I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
