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She could kill him easily. But the lash-tube wavered. Cris Johnson stood without fear; he wasn't at all afraid. Why not? Didn't he understand what it was? What the small metal tube could do to him? 'Of course,' she said suddenly, in a choked whisper. 'You can see ahead. You know I'm not going to kill you. Or you wouldn't have come here.'
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In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.
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The book business is hidebound.
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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
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Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
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'We should celebrate,' Rita said.'Yes. I'm where I wanted to be.' Benteley sipped the remains of his drink. 'Working for the Directorate. Sworn in to the Quizmaster. That’s what I set out for, that day. It seems like a long time ago. Well, I've finally arrived.' He gazed down at his glass and was silent.'How do you feel?''Not much different.'
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Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material.
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Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
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The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.
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(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
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Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can’t destroy their brains; they have none.
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I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
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Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
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