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- Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
- Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors…
- Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
- Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of…
- A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
- I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that…
- 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…
- The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants…
- 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…
- Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
- True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies,…
- When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
- 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…
- Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
- In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
- If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
- I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want…
- The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made…
- I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
- 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…
- It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
- Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All…
- The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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