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“The experienced and skilled observer does not have perceptual experiences identical to those of the untrained novice when the two confront the same situation.”

“Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences, even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical.”

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”

“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”

“Time wounds all heels.”

“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”

“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”

“I don't want to take my time going to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and 10 or 15 girls. What the hell I want to go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I've got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man! I run the underworld, guy! I decide who does what and where they do it at! What am I gonna run around and act like I'm some teeny-bopper somewhere for somebody else's money? I make the money, man. I roll the nickels. The game is mine! I deal the cards.”

“I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words.”

“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”

“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”

“I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am. So I'll just sit and wait for somebody to say, "Aren't you …?"”

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”

“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

“Certain anthropologists would fain teach us that all races are equally gifted; we point to history and answer: that is a lie! The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the extent of their gifts, and the Germanic races belong to the most highly gifted group, the group usually termed Aryan… Physically and mentally the Aryans are pre-eminent among all peoples; for that reason they are by right … the lords of the world. Do we not see the homo syriacus develop just as well and as happily in the position of slave as of master? Do the Chinese not show us another example of the same nature?”

“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly.”