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- We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of…
- Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that…
- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it…
- This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to…
- Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without…
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child…
- On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs…
- And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back,…
- When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there.…
- The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of…
- Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
- You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so…
- I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
- It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To…
- I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you,…
- So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start…
- He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
- It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
- The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
- I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath…
- If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into…
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