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Quotes from Walter M. Miller, Jr.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.