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"An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)"
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"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."
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"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
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"I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink."
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"The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough."
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"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."
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"The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."
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"I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too."
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"Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder."
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"His eyes said what I cannot see."
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"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."
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"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
Philosophy
"Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world."
Philosophy
"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."
Philosophy
"He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry."
Education
"I took my line straight away. I knew I was staking everything, but I jumped there and then. "We're on absolutely the biggest thing that has ever been invented," I said, and put the accent on "we." "If you want to keep me out of this, you'll have to do it with a gun. I'm coming down to be your fourth labourer to-morrow."
Achievement
"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
Profession
"Growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination."
Self
"It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us."
Empathy
"One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction " nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dead."
Philosophy
"Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes."
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