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"On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects."

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"The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman."
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"Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope."
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"Books can be burned,” croaked Black. “They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus."
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"Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog."
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"There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps became dew, And he ate only pops that were lolly."
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"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
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"It’s forty kilometers through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. “After all,” he said softly, “what isn’t?"
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"To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature."
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"Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view."
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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why"
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"A dehoy who was terribly hobble, Cast only stones that were cobble And bats that were ding, From a shot that was sling, But never hit inks that were bobble."
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"There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass."
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"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
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"At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher."
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"Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor."
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"I don't remember any blue poodles."
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
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"The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man."
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"You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon."
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"I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?"
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"I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device"
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"Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication."
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"Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now."
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"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti."
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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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"It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates."
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"A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."
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"Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness."
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"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen."
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"Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted."
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"To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed."
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"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy."
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"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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"You might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards"
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"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
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"What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you."
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"It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
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"You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!"
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"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige..."
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"Quick, name some towns in New Jersey"
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"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
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"He who hesitates is sometimes saved."
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess."
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess."
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