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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."
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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits."
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"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Death
"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer
"And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison."
Legacy
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society
"Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds."
Society
"Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience."
Ethics
"I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out."
Self
"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
Philosophy
"It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
Science
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