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“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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