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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."

"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."

"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"

"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."

"America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia."
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"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"

"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."

"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
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