It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Isaac Asimov

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Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

Douglas Adams

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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Douglas Adams

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Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

H.P. Lovecraft

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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Douglas Adams

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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Douglas Adams

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It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

Douglas Adams

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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Douglas Adams

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All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Michael Crichton

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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

René Descartes

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