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"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."
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"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
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"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."
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"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
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"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use."
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"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
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"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
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"Consequences are unpitying."
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"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
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"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."
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"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
Society
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
Consequence
"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
Society
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
Society
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire
"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
Fact
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