As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. - D. T. Max

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People minus space equals Poverty. . . What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

D. T. Max

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

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Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

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The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

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People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

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I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

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If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without. . . let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

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