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Victoria Schwab
“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”
Victoria Schwab, The Archived

Susan Sontag
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”
Susan Sontag

Richard Paul Evans
“I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.”
Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

Margaret Atwood
“We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

C.S. Lewis
“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?”
C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

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