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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."

"We often know information but not the epistemology of that information."

"Failure is the school of greatness."

"We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher."

"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."

"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."

"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
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