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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Me...more

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To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

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It's the writing that teaches you.

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Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, w...more

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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?""In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commo...more

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

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A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to...more

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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and tha...more

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Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusin...more

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Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it th...more

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the cent...more