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"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
Dogs
"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
Theory
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
Woman
"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
Thought
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
Truth
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
Happiness
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
Husband
"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
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