"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
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"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.“
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"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
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