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"It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear."
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."

"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."

"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."

"To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth."

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight."

"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."

"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."

"A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law."
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