"Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while."
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"People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin."
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"The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!"
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"Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did."
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"Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry."
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"If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water."
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"There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment."
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"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."
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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
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"What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical."
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"I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection."
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"I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh."
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"If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people."
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"I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved."
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"Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war."
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"I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age."
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"It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live."
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"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake."
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"Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others."
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