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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."

"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."

"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."

"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
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