QUOTES by Altering Kurt
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"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer."
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"A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society."
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"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"
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"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
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"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
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"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
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"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."
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"I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking."
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"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."
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"If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"
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"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."
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"If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
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"There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore."
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"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
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"She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
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"Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful."
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"I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living."
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"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
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"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever."
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"People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore".""
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"If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."
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"All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me."
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"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
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"Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe."
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"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
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"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
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"There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
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