"And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity."
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"It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine."
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"The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's."
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"There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there."
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"Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you."
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"Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?""
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"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
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"Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better."
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"If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere."
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"I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him."
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"We may be the generation that sees Armageddon."
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"More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust."
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"the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life."
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"The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction."
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"One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not."
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"A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture"
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"The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing."
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"Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!"
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"Man cannot live upon words, however he may try."
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"The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality."
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