I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
From Christopher Hitchens
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
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