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- If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- Kinsgley Amis
- The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Morality is the weakness of the mind.
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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