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“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”

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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…

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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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