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1 " Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise. "
― Philip José Farmer , Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld, #1-2)
2 " I’m not a Christian,” Göring said. “I admire a man who can admit that. I don’t think I ever met a preacher who came out and said so, in so many words. "
3 " Sam’s heart felt as if it were being licked by a cat. "
4 " First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course. "
5 " yet the world between them was wide. "
6 " What’s that got to do with it?” Sam said. “A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns. "
7 " even killed a man, though it had been more by accident than skill. But he was an ineffectual warrior. In battle the valves of his heart were turned full open, and his strength poured out. "
8 " For the unholy trinity of Bobs: Bloch, Heinlein, and Traurig— may I meet them on the banks of The River, where we’ll board the fabulous Riverboat "
9 " Burton struggled to get up onto his feet. Nobody, not even God, was going to punch Richard Burton in the ribs and get away without a battle. "