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- Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
- What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,…
- 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.…
- Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
- The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
- I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
- It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
- The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The…
- No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.
- 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…
- Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.
- Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being…
- I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be…
- It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,…
- - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this…
- Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of…
- Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
- But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our…
- If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
- It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
- It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual…
- Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I…
- Nice, nice, very nice.
- 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…
- I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of…
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