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"For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane."
"The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see"
"I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still."
"I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady."
"The economy is a thoughtless weather system."
"Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay."
"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
"Never index your own book."
"Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself."
"Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet."
"I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth."
"I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief."
"I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]"
"Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead."
"It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!"
"A man without a home can't be lost."
"We are what we pretend to be."
"Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time."
"A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything."
"You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell."