"It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions."

-- Jack Finney

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“Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.”
“It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.”
“When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.”
“Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.183, Northwestern University Press
“As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.”
“It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.”
“I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.”
“The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.”

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