The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. - Samuel Butler

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Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

Samuel Butler

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

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