"Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
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"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
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"George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography."
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"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."
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"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."
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"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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"There are too many of us and we are all too far apart."
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"Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."
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"My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
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"We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted."
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"The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around."
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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
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"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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"The triumph of anything is a matter of organization."
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"I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity."
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"I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one."
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"What a bummer it is to be a human being."
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"Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust."
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"We're here on Earth to fart around"
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"All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so."
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