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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
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"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."

"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."

"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."

"Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers."

"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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