"You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale ..."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposed the Soviet forced-labor camp system. His major books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.