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- It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
- You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know…
- Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything…
- The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much…
- There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that…
- I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?"…
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
- The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to…
- [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining…
- Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented…
- Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
- In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when…
- Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
- It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of…
- You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at…
- Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to…
- Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
- Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
- There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in…
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