"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
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"It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."
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"We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
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"Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go."
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"I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers."
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"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."
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"I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living."
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"...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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"The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."
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"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
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"The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal."
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"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
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"It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love."
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"What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain."
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"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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"Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."
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"I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now."
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"One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment."
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"The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why."
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"We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy."
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