“without disbelieving the object of this misconception it is impossible to abandon misconceiving it.”
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters”
“The biggest misconception about success is "you're lucky". It's not a coincidence, it takes hard work. Prayer without work is dead.”
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”
“The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.”