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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."

"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."
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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."

"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."

"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
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