“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Memoirs (1796)
“If there are any competent journalists here, I’m ready for their inquiries.”
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 1 (p. 7)
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Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 132.
Context: Selection does not work by cutthroat competition between individuals, but by favouring whatever behavior is useful to the group. People with crude notions of "Darwinism" make an intriguing blunder here. They refuse the mere fact of competing, that is, of needing to share out a resource with the motive of competitiveness or readiness to quarrel.
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)
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Lynn Nottage (1964) American playwright
On how the interview process is different when writing a work of fiction in “An Interview with Lynn Nottage” https://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2015/10/an-interview-with-lynn-nottage/ in The Interval (2015 Oct 14)
An-My Lê (1960) American photographer
Interview with the Art Newspaper (August 13, 2020)
“IF THERE BE HERE LESSON OR MORAL, IT LIES BEYOND THE COMPETENCE OF HIM WHO INSCRIBES THIS RECORD.”
Jack Vance book Emphyrio
Source: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 19