"But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes"
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"If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life."
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"Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice."
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"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."
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"Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents."
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"I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun."
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"Time is so strange and life is twice as strange."
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"When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers."
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"A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace."
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"Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer."
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"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."
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"Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from."
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"For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!"
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"Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?"
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"Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch."
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"Love what you do and do what you love."
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"Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?"
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"I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating."
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"A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry."
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"Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go."
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