"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
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"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
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"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
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"As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years."
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"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."
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"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"
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"My weapon is literature"
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"Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms."
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"The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN."
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"In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously."
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"The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right."
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"Not everyone can be an orphan."
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"There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon."
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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
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"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
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"Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation."
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"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science."
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