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“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
“The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime. ”
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