Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.


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On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
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There must be darkness to see the stars.
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The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale ...
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I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to p...
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«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever d...
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and ...
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To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: t...
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The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsi...
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issu...
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I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I wr...
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This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist...
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So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...
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What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" ...
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Why are men afraid of women?"
If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,"...
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But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again...
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I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
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I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live ...
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They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made al...
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Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men.
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...
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An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ...
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A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his in...
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...
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On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
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He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...
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George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
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I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It...
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It was more than dignity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possib...
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the b...
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made...
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, rec...
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You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
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Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, an...
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Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal ...
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We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them...
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Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you...
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatene...
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV se...
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I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
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We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that di...
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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in eit...
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Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho...
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...
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He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are inn...
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Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibi...
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For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, th...
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I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
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In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a st...
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But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire b...
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What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them bot...
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To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
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Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
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