• It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

  Edward Hoagland
  American Novelist, Essayist 1932-
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1. incongruous
2. direction
3. ourselves
4. conceive
5. immortal
6. grave

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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. by : Edward Hoagland

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