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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."

"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."

"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
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"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."

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

"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."

"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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