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" Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. "

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" I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. "

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" Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. "

" Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. "

" God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. "

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" In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. "

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" The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. "

" America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. "

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