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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."

"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."

"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."

"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."

"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."

"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."

"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."
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