“ Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ”
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“ Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ”
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“ The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ”
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“ As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ”
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“ As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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“ A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes - and it will come - may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. ”
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
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