"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."

Doubt, Intellectuals, Job, Perfection

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"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

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"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."

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"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."

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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

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"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."

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"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

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