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"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."
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"I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is."
"It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is."
"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity."
"After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it."
"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."
"To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative."
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
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