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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."
"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
"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?"
"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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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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