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“Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.”
“Imagine a factory staffed by Alphasthat is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming res...”
“Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.”
“Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink t...”
“Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and m...”
“To condemn slavery was one thingthat I could do in my own individual heartbut female ministers!”
“Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.”
“The whole justification for having such a bureaucratic system in the first place is so that balance is maintained, and so that one institution doesn't benefit at the expense of all others. Imagine ...”
“Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?”
“By keeping the price of treatment drugs artificially high, and making sure that only those who can afford it have the opportunity of a cure, we're actually supporting the work that the Ministry of ...”
“Diamonds are intriscally worthless.”
“There's no such thing as an ex-marine.”
“Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might bean overture for sarcasm.”
“But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avo...”
“He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting a...”
“You have to understand, having a good time is not my idea of having a good time.”
“Pretty average headlines for a worldwide catastrophe, Jane remarked as she read from Hollywood's Highest. Some man in Africa claimed to have found the cure for AIDS, yet another politician said som...”
“Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long before they ever do. Living, suffering, murdering, dying all...”
“You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”
“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”
