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I will go, he said to himself. Before I die I'll see Mars.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?"
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning ...

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

Reality is just a point of view.

Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

For each person there is a sentence - a series of words - which has the power to destroy them.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

Did not care. Going to the wall he unfastened the cord and

What we really need is a doctor, not a spear.

I am like a gray thing, he thought. Bustling along with the currents of air that tumble me, that roll me, like a gray puffball, on and on.

It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long.

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz - industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers' commodities.

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.

There is nothing worse ... no punishment greater than to have known God and no longer to know him.

I had a lot of fears that the universe would discover just how different I was from it.

The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people!

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it.

Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Better a live dog than a dead prince

If we hadn't invented them, the Ivans would have.

As the spring rains fall, soaking in them, on the roof, is a child's rag ball.

She was a redhead and he liked redheads; they were either outrageously ugly or almost supernaturally attractive.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phone call from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.

In Parsifal: You see, my son, here time turns into space.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?

If I'm an andy," Phil Resch said, "and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I'll write it out, willing it to you.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things ... I must be scientific.

How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.

But if that's Olham, then I must be ...

Whom the gods notice they destroy.

I chose God over the material universe.

It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justice fall victim, even, to what is right?

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Does she make the heavens fall?" "Yes, she pulls down everything." Molinari nodded. "It's a psionic talent she has ... it's called being a woman.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

To live is to be haunted.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

them. Saw a glimpse of it myself. What would

So you want to have gone to Mars. Very good.

The door refused to open. It said, Five cents, please.

A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

The appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said.

I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.

And after all, they had been successful with the Jews and Gypsies and Bible Students.

Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The

Love is another name for sex.

Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels.

A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Look, Haley's comet!

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

The most dangerous kind of person ... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed ... You can't go from people to nonpeople.

Caroline said, "She's terribly, terribly disruptive." "So is reality," Hawthorne said.

Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.

To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear ... This was not a human being at all.

There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.

The guilty, he reflected as he drove amid the heavy late-afternoon traffic as carefully as possible, may flee when no one pursues - he

Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one.

Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.
Why?
It makes me paranoid.