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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"You can make fun of everything."
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
Power
"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
Perception
"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."
Wisdom
"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
Mortality
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Music
"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
God
"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible."
Education
"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing."
Work
"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
Truth
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
Love
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