"There is more than one way to burn a book."
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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
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"People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it."
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"It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."
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"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
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"Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill."
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"It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones."
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"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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"The terrible tyranny of the majority."
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"I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater."
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"An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience."
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"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."
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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
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"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
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"I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down."
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"You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon."
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"How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"
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"I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both."
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