"We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations."
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"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave."
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"Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read."
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"If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
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"But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
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"People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
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"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant."
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"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."
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"People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
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"Love is the veil between lover and lover."
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"They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing."
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"Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life."
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"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
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"There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed."
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"She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes."
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"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different."
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"Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze."
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"Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians."
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