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"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
Politics
"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
War
"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."
Doubt
"I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country."
War
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
Civilization
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
Freedom
"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
Life
"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."
Life
"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
Life
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
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"If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself."
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"Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us."
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"God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new."
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"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."
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"I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences."
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"He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore."
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"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
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"What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?"
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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."
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