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"...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right."
"After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react."
""I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better.""
"Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind."
"Anything that happens, happens."
"If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing."
"Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future."
"And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told."
"Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow."
"Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet."
"I don't like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don't believe in God, or at least not in the one we've invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they've invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world."
"Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're just not. If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say 'I respect that'."
"Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next."
"In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat."
"I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals."
"Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order."
"Space is unimaginably big."
"They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief"
"Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears."
"In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal."