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John Steinbeck
A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Charles Dickens
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
Great Expectations
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Dr. Seuss
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
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Cormac McCarthy
I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.
No Country for Old Men
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Patrick Modiano
I believe that by time I had already realized that no one really answers the questions.
L'Herbe des Nuits
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Milan Kundera
Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not
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Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety
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Publilius Syrus
It is not every question that deserves an answer
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Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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