"Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively."

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Source : "The Last Book" by Simon Soloveychik, (Ch. 17), 1999.

Simon Soloveychik

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“Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.”
“it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.”
“I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.”
“Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.”
“When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.”

Source : Lewis Wolpert (2014). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.79, Faber & Faber
“I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.”
“One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.”

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