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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Hope
Perpetrated
Going
Meantime
Centuries
Manner
Kept
Christianity
Century
Alone

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