Breakfast of Champions Quotes

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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their...

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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

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This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

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There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

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It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

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I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometime...

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Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else i...

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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

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As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.

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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. E...

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The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though...

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