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"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
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"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."
"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
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