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Quotes by Writer
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
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"According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half."
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"Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel."
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"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."
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"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it."
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"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
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"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."
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"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."
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"Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them."
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"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
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"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."
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"If I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur."
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"As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be."
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"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
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"The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:"This is water.""This is water."It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out."
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"Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it."
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"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
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"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
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"When you choose to notice the little things, the world becomes a much more beautiful place. Find the beauty of the little things and the whole picture becomes a bit more magnificent."
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"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
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"We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress."
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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
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"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
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"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since."
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"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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