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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

About All Writers Because Environment
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Almighty God God Almighty Hand
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Enough Everybody Just Look
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Never index your own book.
Book Never Own Your
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Science is magic that works.

Magic Science That Works
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

About Asked Deep How
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Certainly Going Look People
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation

Little Inaccuracy Sometimes Saves
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Romance at short notice was her specialty

Romance Short notice Specialty
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Remember Days Not bricks Bricks.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Marxism Opium Intellectuals.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius Moral Insight Motor
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society

Human Imagination Conceive Possibility
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Product Scientific Imagination Vision
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Disorder Stress Fanatic Prominent
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Immoral Disgraceful Dangerous tImmoral Disgraceful
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Curious Quotient Excited Intelligence
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Going Stop Tight Luminous
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lead Dog Scenery.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Desperate Jauntiness Orchestra Fiddling
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Hard Sex Unattractive.
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another

Mistake Europe Quarrel Drop bomb
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One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later

Demonstrated To art Emotion Future
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
Education Last hope Liberal Period.
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances
Work Art Trick Artist
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing Demoralizing Adequate Income
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally
Wise Man Fool Finally
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Titles Honor Men
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
One Deceives Allow
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

Simple Inclined Deceiver Lack
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Willing Everything Share Glory
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

People Prince Understand Nature
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Wish Obeyed Command
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Secure Feared Loved
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Hatred Gained Good Work
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Prince Never lack Legitimate Promise
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Change Leaves Establishment
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promise Necessity Past Broken
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men Rise Ambition Attack
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Tardiness Rob Opportunity Dispatch
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Shrink Offending Inspire Fear
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