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“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”
― Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
― Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting"
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But that's not all people laugh at."
Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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But that's not all people laugh at."
Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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