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“Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.”
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“[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.”
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“His eyes were narrow and black, his nose sharp, and his lips thin as a new thought.”
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“Evil is obvious only in retrospect.”
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“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.”
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“Prayer is like money — it has no smell.”
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“Of theology it is dangerous to speak; but as every one will admit that whatever has been written without the pale of his own narrow sect is pernicious error; and as what every body says must be true, the reader may draw his own consequence.”
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“In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.”