I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
A. J. JACOBSI’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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