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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

"The more you look, the less you see."

"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."

"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

"An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending."

"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."

"If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them."
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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."


"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"


"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."


"You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!"


"The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart."


"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."
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