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““Hazel's obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass””

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“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

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“People aren't supposed to look back.”

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“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.”

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“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned…

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“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on…

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“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it”

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

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“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to…

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“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that…

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“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a…

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“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent human beings were so stupid that they could only make things worse by speaking their minds. It was thinkers, after all, who had set up the death camps. Setting up a death camp, with its railroad…

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Thanks to all members of the military around the world for giving me the ultimate motivation.

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