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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
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Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have…
— Richard Dawkins
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No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
— Clifford Bax
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
— Josh Billings
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
— Jules de Goncourt
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought…
— Carrie P Snow
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