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“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Science is magic that works.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince