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"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance."

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Success is dependent on effort."

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."

"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

"The vanquished themselves prove that history has not lied; like tourists in hell, they took snapshots."

"All war is deception."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"May you live every day of your life."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."