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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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Personal Development
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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Personal Development
"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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Personal Development
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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Personal Development
"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."
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Personal Development
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."
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Personal Development
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
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"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."
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"One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point."
Inspirational
"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
Opinion
"I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised."
Politics
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
Philosophy
"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."
Science
"Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that."
Conflict
"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
Friendship
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
Critique
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
Philosophy
"This is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life."
Conflict
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