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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."
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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."
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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."
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"There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act, love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one."
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"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
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"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society."
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"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."
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"The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?"
Meaning
"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
Time
"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
Fool
"The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught."
Character
"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
Question
"I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here."
Love
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
Want
"I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out."
Work
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds."
Knowledge
"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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