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There are, I know (it was in our philosophy course in college), at least a hundred different reasons why some particular event takes place.

— Elaine Dundy The Dud Avocado (1958)

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Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Elvis and Gladys (1985)

And eventually we will make sense of it.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I kept crying, knowing that I would never go back to seeing what I used to see.

Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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