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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…
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States…
- What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses.…
- I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
- I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
- The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well…
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of…
- 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…
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do…
- Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,…
- If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now,…
- 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…
- The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city…
- I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated…
- I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
- Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He…
- The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
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