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Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

— Connie Willis Bellwether (1996)

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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Doomsday Book (1992)

Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

Remake (1994)

A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key.

Fire Watch (1985)

“Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.”

Fire Watch (1985)

He sorted all the mail into three piles of “for” and “against” and “wildly insane,” then threw all of them into the wastebasket.

Fire Watch (1985)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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