December 2010
9 posts
“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
—Ricky Gervais, Why I’m An Atheist (via fortuneandglory)
“If mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? Yes, of course, but who cares? The gifts kept coming. And so did the gifts of my new found atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world. … I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.”
—Ricky Gervais, Why I’m An Atheist (via fortuneandglory)
“When I was a boy, the bestselling books were often the books that were on your piano teacher’s shelf. I mean, Steinbeck, Hemingway, some Faulkner. Faulkner actually had, considering how hard he is to read and how drastic the experiments are, quite a middle-class readership. But certainly someone like Steinbeck was a bestseller as well as a Nobel Prize-winning author of high intent. You don’t feel that now. I don’t feel that we have the merger of serious and pop - it’s gone, dissolving. Tastes have coarsened. People read less, they’re less comfortable with the written word.”
—John Updike (2000)
