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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"

"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."

"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."

"Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively."

"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."

"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"

"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"

"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"

"Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies."

"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
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"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."

"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."

"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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