"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
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"[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important."
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"There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle."
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"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
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"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities."
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"Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up."
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"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
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"The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer"
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"You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust."
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"The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest."
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"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
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"The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions."
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"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves."
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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."
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"Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it."
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"Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first."
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"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
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"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
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"No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery."
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"All life long, the same questions, the same answers."
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