"The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it."
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"We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality."
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"As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve."
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"Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization."
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"All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience."
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"Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin."
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"Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough."
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"Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
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"Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom."
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"I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf."
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"Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure."
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"This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper."
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"The only question is how to make love stay."
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"You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you."
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"You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think."
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"We are seldom as limited as we think we are."
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"Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman."
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"The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks."
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"Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise."
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"Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists."
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