“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

— Jonathan Franzen, book How to Be Alone

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Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

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Constance Wu (1982) American actress

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“The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.”

Stephen Jay Gould book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

"The Tallest Tale", p. 315
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“It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

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