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“I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.”

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“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real…

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Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

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“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be…

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“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done…

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A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only…

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Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could…

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“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain…

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Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

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“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.”

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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with…

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“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -…

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