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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
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"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."
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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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"The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do."
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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
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"Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers."
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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
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"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."
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"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor
"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
Positivity
"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory
"War is what happens when language fails."
War
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
Storytelling
"The internet is 95 percent porn and spam."
Emotion
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Emotion
"After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken."
Mortality
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
Beginning
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
Writing
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