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"You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably."

"The worst happens when you least expect it."

"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."

"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."

"We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up."

"For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!"
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."

"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought."
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