"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
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"I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on."
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"He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough."
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"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."
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"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."
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"Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere."
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"It was a pleasure to burn."
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"If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life."
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"When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years."
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"I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done."
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"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
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"If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture."
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"Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads."
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"There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."
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"That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."
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"Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."
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"These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be."
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"The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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