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"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
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"Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story."

"The moment of existence is miraculous."

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"And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation."

"Mooooon! said the Ogre. "Tranquility". Then he pointed at the full moon. "Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility. Then he added, "It's made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger.Mickey sighed."What's his story? the wraith asked."He's chocolate, Mikey said."

"Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf."

"Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment."

"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"

"We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew."
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