"Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said."
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"If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot."
"And the Lord said you got to rise Up!"
"Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."
"The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before."
"[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy."
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
"One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'"
"Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
"When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing."
"Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on."
"If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung."
"We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?"
"Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said."
"I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more."
"The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'."
"I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else."
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."
"Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer."
"What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?"