"The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy."
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"Be happy for no reason, like a child."
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"I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons."
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"Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity."
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"I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons."
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"The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected."
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"Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason."
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"The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system."
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"Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself."
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"You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away."
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"At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it."
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"The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over."
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"I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again."
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"If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad."
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"It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more."
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"There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true."
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"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."
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"Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife."
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"You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?"
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"The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong."
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