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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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"In life; not all questions require gentle answers, some just want you to be so stupid to answer in a stupid way."
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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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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."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
Reading
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."
Cultural
"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying."
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"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
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"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."
Literature
"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
Man
"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
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