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"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."


"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."


"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."


"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."


"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."


"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"


"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."


"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
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