The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything… it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
- Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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