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"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
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"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."
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"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."
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"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
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"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."
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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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"In this world only the paranoid survive."
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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."
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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."
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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
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"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
Being
"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
Time
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Work
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
Paradise
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
Friendship
"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
People
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
People
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