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You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
We don't piss in your ashtrays,
So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers — joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)