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• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an…
• We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was…
• You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
• Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
• Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
• The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
• The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he…
• When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
• Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a…
• Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
• The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of…

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