800 Quotes About Gods

  • Author Patrick White
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    He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs.

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  • Author Holly Walrath
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    They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunateof the people of fortune, who bury their dead in the sand where the light of heaven is closest at dawn, and farther and farther away at twilight.

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