"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

Doubt, Necessity, Reflection

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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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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."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Doubt, Religion, Desire, Hope

"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."

Advice

"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."

Future

"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."

People

"The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend."

Now

"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."

Now

"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."

People

"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."

Business

"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."

Reason

"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."

Money

"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."

Science