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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."

"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."


"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."


"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."


"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."


"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."


"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."


"There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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