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"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."
"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."
"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."
"If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity."
"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."
"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."
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"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."
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