"Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh."
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"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."
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"The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world."
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"Change the world. Build a business. Have fun."
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"In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe."
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"We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery."
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"Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid."
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"If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality."
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"whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself."
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"The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out."
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"The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain."
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"Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."
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"The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man."
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"In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into."
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"The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level."
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"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."
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"A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe."
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"A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world."
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"I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes."
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"People just want to have access to all of the world's music."
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