“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

— William Faulkner, book Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

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American writer 1897–1962

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

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“I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

2000s, Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation (2001)
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“It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.”

Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist

Source: Economic Philosophy (1962), p. 21

“In an infinite universe; eternal time, why just do what people tell you? 'ave a laugh; do what you want.”

Russell Brand (1975) British comedian, actor, and author

Radio One Interview, July 5th 2007

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”

Trent Lott (1941) United States Senator from Mississippi

On Sunnis and Shia, as quoted in CNN http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/09/lott-bush-barely-mentioned-iraq-in.html (2006). <br class="br">2000s

“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The fans are all upset. They’re always going to be upset. Why did he do it like this? And why didn’t he do it like this? They write their own movie, and then, if you don’t do their movie, they get upset about it.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

On Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, "Keys to the Kingdom" at Vanity Fair (2 January 2008) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/02/indianajones200802 <br class="br">2000s

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

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