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“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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