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- Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their…
- You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
- Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is…
- The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
- I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
- Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as…
- It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent…
- Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey,"…
- Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If…
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
- There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
- If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish…
- A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and…
- Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing…
- The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the…
- There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true…
- You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..
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