"A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime."
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"... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock."
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"Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness."
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"PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!"
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"Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed."
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"It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being."
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"Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July."
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"For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff."
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"How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society."
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"But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve."
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"Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live."
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"most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory"
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"I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father."
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"There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life."
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"The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God."
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"The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter]."
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"I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything."
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"They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts.""
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"Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more."
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"There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream."
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