It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.
But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.
Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.
Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.
In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.
I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
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