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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in."
Society

"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all."
Love

"You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you."
Society

"I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won."
Thought

"Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye."
Society

"Ritual is necessary for us to know anything."
Writing

"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths."
Heroism

"Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing."
Writing

"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."
Fun

"The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to."
Religion
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