#contra

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ↗

— Margaret Smith

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In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. ↗

— George Saunders

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...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. ↗

— Benjamin Zander

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