"I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers."
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"Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show."
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"If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me."
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"When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom."
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"Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks."
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"Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself."
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"It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me."
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"A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur."
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"I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68."
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