"If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

Michael Silverblatt

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“Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.
“Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
“All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.”
“I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.”
“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.”
“For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.”
“I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada

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