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"The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not."
"Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not."
"Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity."
"For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never."
"To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy."
"I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism."
"This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got."
"Women who love only women may have a good point."
"Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope."
"Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool."
"Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February."
"Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love."
"But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended."
"I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere."
"I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again."
"The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth."
"If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke."
"Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home."
"The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning."
"In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters."
