“What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.”
Molloy (1951)
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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989Related quotes

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Faith is belief in what I do not know now, so I can come soon enough for what I believe in.”
In The Art of Man-making: Talks on the Bhagavad Geeta http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ssyfCDBzOrYC&pg=PA187, p. 187

“I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.”
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
LXXXV, lines 1–2
Carmina

"Doing What I Know" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Doing What I Know" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlkC9AFrSNU (song on YouTube)

“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)