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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."

"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."

"As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill."

"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
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