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"When I think about my own death, I don't console myself with the idea that my descendants and my books and all that will live on. Anybody with any sense knows that the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. I honestly believe, though, that we are wrong to think that moments go away, never to be seen again. This moment and every moment lasts forever."

"So, maybe, the Secretary of Defense would be friendly about my pacifism and all that, and I would be expected to be friendly about the end of the world and all that."

"There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either."

"Diving into her mind, I gathered, was about as much fun as dogpaddling across Cleveland's Cuyahoga River."

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"I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if The Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell 'em to give all their money away."

"You don't matter," said Finnerty. "You belong to History now."
A heavy door thumped shut, and Paul knew that he was alone again, and that History, somewhere on the other side of the door, would let him out only when it was good and ready to.

"That man's got a lot of get up and go," said Anita.
"He fills me full of lie down and die," said Paul.

"Oh, now listen, Ed," said Paul, smiling, "they're
good-hearted people."

"Who isn't? I'm not, I guess. Their superiority is what gets me, this damn hierarchy that measures men against machines. It's a pretty unimpressive kind of man that comes out on top."

Hot dang I'm loving this one!!

"Why Finnerty had seen fit to offend these gentle people was never clear to Paul, who supposed the aggressiveness, like most aggressiveness, dated back to some childhood muddle."