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I'm not really good at fun-to...

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

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Often I sort of work up and d...

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

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As far as I'm concerned, I'm ...

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

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The universe is, instant by i...

The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

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...and the funny thing was th...

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

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A bad hunter chases. A good h...

A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.

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...inside every old person is...

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

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Books must be treated with re...

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

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Death: Human beings make life...

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

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No one is actually dead until...

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

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A good plan isn't one where s...

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

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Chaos is found in greatest ab...

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

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If you trust in yourself. . ....

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

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Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THIN...

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

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I tell you, commander, it's t...

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

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You're not allowed to call th...

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

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The IQ of a mob is the IQ of ...

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

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Real stupidity beats artifici...

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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Two types of people laugh at ...

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

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The conflict is not between C...

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....