"The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason."

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Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess