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Marisha Pessl
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Special Topics in Calamity
,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive."
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Colleen McCullough
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The Thorn Birds
We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
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J.K. Rowling
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Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes
You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.
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Cecelia Ahern
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Flawed
I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Death in the Afternoon
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Katie McGarry
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Chasing Impossible
I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.
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Miroslav Volf
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A Public Faith: How Followers
To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels
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Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange
The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
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Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick: The Last
If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing.
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