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"This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values...."
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"Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don't believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you'll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn't make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is."
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"Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!"
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"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
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"If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him."
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"Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead."
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"You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck?"
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"No people find each other more absurd than lovers."
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"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
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"Time is the only critic without ambition."
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"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
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"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
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"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
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"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
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"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
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"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
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"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."
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"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
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