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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
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"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles."
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"I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!"
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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."
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"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
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"Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters."
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"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."
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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
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"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
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"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
Creativity
"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name."
Psychology
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in."
Spiritual
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Politics
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
Suffering
"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself."
Behavior
"He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone - one mind less, one world less."
Mortality
"It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice."
Society
"And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
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"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
Culture
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