Spider Robinson Quotes
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.
Spider Robinson
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If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
Edward Bellamy
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If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane Austen
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He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.
Anne Sexton
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At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
Neil Gaiman
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
Grace Martine Tandon
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike
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'My God, but I command King Ferdinand's guard and-' 'And King Ferdinand, sir, is a prisoner! Which does not speak, sir, for the efficacy of his guard.'
Bernard Cornwell
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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
Saadi
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People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.
Scott Adams
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If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.
Spider Robinson