"I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary..."

-- Peter Medawar

#Believe Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Reason Quotes

“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”

Source : "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.
“I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?”
“I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.”
“When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.”
“There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.”
“Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.”
“The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.”

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