“It's never pleasant to have your integrity questioned, of course, no matter who you are. But when it's questioned by someone who doesn't even know you, someone who doesn't even have the facts straight, yet whose name carries the authority of science -- well, that's not exactly guaranteed to make your day.”

—  Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 127

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American Writer 1929–1984

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