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"Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon."
"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on."
"Here is a lesson in writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
"Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!"
"I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written."
"Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed."
"I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents."
"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better."
"Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside."
"You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean."
"There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors."
"I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him."
"My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’"
"I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren."
"A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing."
"If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness."
"Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that."
"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous."
"all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war"
"What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them."