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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
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"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."
"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
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