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“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“As for the story itself, it was entitled "The Dancing Fool." Like so many Trout stories, it was about a tragic failure to communicate. Here was the plot: A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing. Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner touched down than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into the house, farting and tap dancing, warning the people about the terrible danger they were in. The head of the house brained Zog with a golfclub.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”
― The Wars
― The Wars
“It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.”
― Night
― Night
“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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