"The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention."

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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

— Cynthia Ozick