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"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
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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."

"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."

"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."

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

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

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."
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"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

"Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common."
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