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- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
- Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A…
- There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If…
- What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me…
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