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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience…
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to…
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a…
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The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught…
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
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In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems…
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when…
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Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
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If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
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A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
— E E Cummings
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In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If…
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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than…
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.…
— Kristin Cashore
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If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
— Christopher Morley
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