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• I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

  Meat Loaf

  Lying

  Song: I'd Lie For You, 1995

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• Inside the silence is a melody.

  Joe Walsh

  Silence, Melody, Silence Is

  Song: The Radio Song, Album: Got Any Gum?

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• My uncle used to love me, but she died.

  Roger Miller

  Uncles, Used, Died

  Song: My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died, Album: Words and Music

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• There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

  Meat Loaf

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

  John Osborne

  Bisexual, Men, World

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• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.

  Peter Atkins

  Ignorance, Atheism, Tautology

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• It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.

  Michael Haneke

  Religious, Impossible Things, Political

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Doe, Purpose, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.

  Michael Haneke

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy theory books, most of which are outlandish. But what DeLillo posits - some rogue CIA guys - is the most dramatically sound, plausible explanation for it.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Guy, Sound

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

  Karen Armstrong

  Children, Grief, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Book, Boys, Hands

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• For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Writing, Quests, Hunts

  William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “PrairyErth: A Deep Map”, p.450, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Demand, Presumption

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boyhood, Natural, Invention

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.31, Booklassic

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• The only explanation on what's happened today is my opponent was better than me.

  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

  Opponents, Today, Happened

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• We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

  Alice Sebold

  People, Understanding, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

  Gautama Buddha

  Finished, Unspeakable

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• One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Needs, Our Words

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Emotional

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• I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it's unlikely to be true.

  Frank Schatzing

  Giving, Guy, Doubt

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• As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Suggestions, Pages, Action

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• Establish enigmas, not explanations.

  Robert Smithson

  Enigma

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Impossible

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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