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"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."
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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"
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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
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"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain."
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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."
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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."
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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
Freedom
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
Humility
"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
Life
"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
Creativity
"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
People
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
Army
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
Talent
"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 don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
People
"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."
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