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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
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"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."
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"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."
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"I'll rail against what I think is wrong."
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"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
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"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
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"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
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"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
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"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
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"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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