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He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.
To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.
With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.