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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
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