by JoanKonner (Author)
'All thinking men are atheists', Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves...Includes comments from: Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Samuel Beckett, Luis Bunuel, Albert Camus, Fidel Castro, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Albert Einstein, Joseph Heller, Christopher Hitchens, Aldous Huxley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter O'Toole, Salman Rushdie, Bertrand Russell, Emo Philips, Frank Sinatra, Kurt Vonnegut and Frank Zappa. When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, i despair of ever writing anything to equal it - Oscar Wilde SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited - Ambrose Bierce There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be an answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer - Gertrude Stein Is man just one of God's mistakes? Or is God one of man's? - Friedrich Nietzsche Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz God is love, but get it in writing - Gypsy Rose Lee If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities - Voltaire The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact a drunken man is happier than a sober one - George Bernard Shaw
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Published: 24 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 0715641360
ISBN 13: 9780715641361