Tony Hendra Quotes

#1. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

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#2. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?

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#3. I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing
and worse, of having to continue to exist.

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#4. History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

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#5. This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.

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#6. Blessed are the generous, for they know their riches belong to others. Blessed

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#7. The ordinary was the divine, where common sense met mystery, where logic kissed the cheek of the inexplicable, the immeasurable, immemorial spirit throbbing like veins beneath the hard gray asphalt of quotidian life.

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#8. For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.

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#9. Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.

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#10. Wittgenstein once said: the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?

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#11. All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.

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#12. You see, dear - I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.

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