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"He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate, in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life."
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"Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for."

"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."

"Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time."

"Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned."

"Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to."

"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."

"The gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake."

"If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way."
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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."


"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."


"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."


"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."


"The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature."
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