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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
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"I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can't trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don't believe in the natural nobility of kings, because a large percentage of them in our history have turned out to be power-crazed idiots. And I certainly don't believe in the wisdom of wizards. I've worked with their modern equivalents, and I know what I'm talking about."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."
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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
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"God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don't hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it."
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"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience
"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Time
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity
"Human sympathy has its limits."
Emotion
". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
People
"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
Reflection
"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
Relationship
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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