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The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.

— Fredric Brown The Mind Thing (1961)

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The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.

“Nuts,” said the Martian. “You people got rocks in your heads, that’s what accounts for your superstitions.”

Martians, Go Home (1955)

A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders.

The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953)

Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.

The Mind Thing (1961)

“Are you interested in science?”
“Of course I am. Who isn’t?”

The Mind Thing (1961)

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

Bertrand Russell Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948)

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Alexander Pope

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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