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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."

"And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane."

"I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way."

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry."


"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off."


"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it."


"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
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