- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Inspection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020