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"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
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"Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life."

"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."

"What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles..."

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."

"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."

"Two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
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