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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
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social-commentary
science-fiction
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Shared pain is lessened.
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Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
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humour
friendship
comedy
sf
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Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
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Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze -- and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.
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Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased
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And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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education
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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
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honesty is hard work.
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I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson's Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
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sex
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In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
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education
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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
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youth
despondency
social-problems
drugs
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Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
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anger is always fear in disguise
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If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...
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Shared pain is lessened
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I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I thought all homes had equations scrawled with disc-marker across all the cabinets and walls, and clean laundry in the freezer, and defrosting chicken in the tool drawer. I thought everyone read a book a day and listened to hours of ancient music.
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Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
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it's better than a stick in the eye
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Shared joy is increased; Shared pain is lessened.
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Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat."
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darkness
sneaking
sneaking-out
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Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it,..
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
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Callahan's Law:
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He smiled like a sun lamp.
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I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that you be at least a little sane, that you know at least a little something. You must abdicate the right to be ignorant in order to enjoy science fiction, which most people are unwilling to do; and you must learn, if not actually how to think things..
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sanity
science-fiction
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Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his c..
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explanation
rational
facts
listening
logic
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Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I
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Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.
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Hey Jake. I got an idea.' 'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
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ideas
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A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.
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It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more.
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sympathy
problems
hurt
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Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.
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description
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I was a little afraid you might get all macho about not exposing your wife to danger. I am. I wouldn't want you to accidentally suffer any harm while beating the shit out of me for trying to keep you out of the party. You could forget and hit me on the head, and hurt your knuckles.
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What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.
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whisky
surprise
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Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie -- and the A-movie for that matter -- that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love.
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destiny
love
entrance
dramatic-moment
love-at-first-sight
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There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.
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penance
forgiveness
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If you're under 35, and not passionately interested in health food, this one may go over your head. If so, count your blessings: Until very recently, a tribe of killer monkeys lived undetected beneath Greenwich village. To some extent it was not surprising that they escaped notice for so long. They had extremely odd sleeping habits, hibernating for 364 days out of every year (365 in Leap Years) and emerging from the caverns of the Village s..
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Knigi se pishat po nai-shashavi prichini. Niakoi sa napisani, za da izplatiat ipoteka, drugi -- za da spasiat sveta, a treti -- prosto ot niamane kakvo da se pravi. Edin ot liubimite mi anekdoti e za pisatelia, deto se khvanal na bas, che e bukvalno nev'zmozhno da se napishe tolkova KOFTI kniga, ta da ne se nameri koi da ia izdade. I kakvo stanalo po-natat'k -- pisateliat vzel, che napisal nai-t'piia i nai-shablonniia roman, na koito bil sp..
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She was black and a woman and scarred, and as the thought formed in our minds we realized that it was a redundancy. Her scar was visible externally, was all.
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