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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
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"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."
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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"
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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."
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"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
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"Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing."
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"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."
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"One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE."
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"The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms."
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"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."
Criticism
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
Fun
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
Effort
"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."
Effort
"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."
Decision-Making
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy
"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."
Home
"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."
Decision-Making
"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
Love
"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
Sense
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