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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man g...
“To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think a...
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“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitabl...
“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.”
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imag...
“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the ...
“The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past...
“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneu...
“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less clea...
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that ...
“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remembe...
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All the...
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower....
“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of ...
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites represent...
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bus...
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more ...
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“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or...
“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel ho...
“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the ...
