“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.” — Robert Aickman, Painted Devils
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“The only reason for writing history, I think,is so we can try to understand the present. Because of that, the questions it seems relevant to us to ask about the past are informed by our experience of the present. You’re asking the past different questions from what people did fifty years ago, or will be doing in another fifty years.” — Pat Barker, The Art of Fiction No. 243, The Paris Review (Winter 2018)
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“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.” — Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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“Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.” — Michael Frayn, Copenhagen
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“I don’t answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.” — Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
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“Once upon a time I had answers. Now I only have questions.” — Bob Lefsetz, “Family”, The Lefsetz Letter
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“With enigmatic clarity, Life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question.” — Yahia Lababidi, Signposts to Elsewhere
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“One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek.” — Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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