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> [“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/it-all-began-i-suppose-with-learning-to-build-fires-to-warm-the-cave/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

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## Other authors on Cave

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-ross-caligiuri-31263.jpg) Ross Caligiuri 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cave/ross-caligiuri/)

## More by Walter Tevis

> [I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/i-feel-free-and-strong-if-i-were-not-a-reader-of-books-i-could-not/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/and-winning-that-can-be-heavy-on-your-back-too-like-a-monkey-you-drop/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/reading-is-too-intimate-spofforth-said-it-will-put-you-too-close-to/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/reading-is-the-subtle-and-thorough-sharing-of-the-ideas-and-feelings/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/it-changed-the-life-of-mankind-more-radically-than-the-printing-press/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/he-was-sick-sick-from-the-long-dangerous-trip-he-had-taken-sick-from/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/there-had-been-a-few-times-over-the-past-year-when-she-felt-like-this/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't \*tell\* you everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/the-strange-thing-about-television-is-that-it-doesn-t-tell-you/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/only-the-mockingbird-sings-at-the-edge-of-the-woods/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/i-feel-free-and-strong-if-i-were-not-a-reader-of-books-i-could-not-2/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/new-york-is-nearly-a-grave-the-empire-state-building-is-its-gravestone/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/it-all-began-i-suppose-with-learning-to-build-fires-to-warm-the-cave/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

> [“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-tevis/he-began-to-see-a-kind-of-beauty-in-the-strangeness-of-the-field-too/)

[Walter Tevis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-tevis/)

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