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  1. Bret Easton Ellis _ American Psycho

    It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
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  2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sherlock Holmes

    It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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  3. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
    book-quoteimaginationtheory

  5. Iain M. Banks _ Surface Detail

    The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half."
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  7. Michael Crichton _ Travels

    A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The problem of data in conflict with existing theory cannot be overstated. Arthur Eddington once said you should never believe any experiment until it has been confirmed by theory, but this humorous view has a reality that cannot be discounted.
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