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'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'
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And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
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I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?That's how most men live, and don't even know it.
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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