"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
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"We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them."
"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
"A Controlled Mind Can Create All That It Words...!"
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
"There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"I observe Stand Still Day. I also observe whatever I’m standing in front of at the time. I hope on that day I see how much you love me."
"The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes."
"Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith."
"I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome."
"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."
"My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy."
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
"Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are"
"Patience Pays..Is true! But the greater truth is that it takes advance payment before it pays you in return!"
"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
"We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
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