The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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