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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."

"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."

"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
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"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."
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