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How's the patient?' asked Derb...

How's the patient?' asked Derby. 'Dead to the world.' 'But not actually dead.' 'No.' 'How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

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'Self-taught, are you?' Juli...

'Self-taught, are you?' Julian Castle asked Newt. 'Isn't everybody?' Newt inquired. 'Very good answer.' Castle was respectful.

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Our president is a Christian? ...

Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

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Human beings are chimpanzees w...

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

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I thought scientists were goin...

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty-and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

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Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the m...

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

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I'm not a drug salesman. I'm...

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.' 'What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

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Only in books do we learn what...

Only in books do we learn what's really going on.

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What can any one person do?' ...

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

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When we passed a Catholic chur...

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, 'You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybo...

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

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What is the purpose of life?.....

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

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I want you to adore the Univer...

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. 'This above all ...'

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My father said, 'When in doubt...

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

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If you're so smart, why aren...

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

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I don't think he was knowable...

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things,' that nice old lady said to me. 'Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.

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Then the lord rained upon Sodo...

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

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What has been America's most ...

What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

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It was not the thought that I ...

It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

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Here is a les­son in writ­ing....

Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.

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