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"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
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