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"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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