"The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else."
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"It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?"
"When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves."
"And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand."
"Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself."
"Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?"
"A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives."
"How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?"
"Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand."
"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience."
"Valid criticism does you a favor."
"The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed."
"Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume."
"Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving."
"Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container."
"Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide."
"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42"
"Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch."
"When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray."
"This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it."