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When the excrement hit the air conditioner (Recurring phrase throughout many chapters)
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Things die. All things die.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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'The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,' she said, 'would be to not be used for anything by anybody.' ... 'Thank you for using me,' she said to Constant, 'even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.'
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.
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No grown woman is a fan of premature ejaculation.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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