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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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