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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."

"Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us."

"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."

"He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore."

"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."

"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."

"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."

"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
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"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."

"It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails."

"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."

"Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She's practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot."

"Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins."

"The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way."

"People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism."

"Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words."

"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
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