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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“That was the second major lie I told that week. It gets easier, in some ways; now I lie without expending any effort. But I think each one has its own weight. One alone may barely register, like a grain of sand in the palm of one's hand. But soon enough there's more than can be held and they start to slip through our grasp if we are not careful.”
― Emma Newman, Planetfall

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...'

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Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! All right, God damn you! I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars.”
― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Air Froid

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. ”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“We’re simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what’s possible.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit-Will Travel

“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“To die trying is the proudest humans thing.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“good luck’ follows careful preparation; ‘bad luck’ comes from sloppiness.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit-Will Travel

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
― George Orwell

“How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:”
― Samuel Johnson