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" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. "

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" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

" We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. "

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" People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. "

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" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

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" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "

" I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

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" People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. "

" Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. "

" The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. "

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