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“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
![Carson McCullers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1335451237i/3506._UY200_CR5,0,200,200_.jpg)
“They are the we of me.”
― The Member of the Wedding
― The Member of the Wedding
![Carl Sagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1475953320i/10538._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
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![Ellen Raskin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215658052i/10074._UY200_CR36,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.
"Boom!" Jake Wexler replied.”
― The Westing Game
"Boom!" Jake Wexler replied.”
― The Westing Game
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“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us to see what it wants us to see and remember and think what it wants us to remember and think. Which means we're whatever it wants us to be. Which in turn means that we have no genuine existence. We're at the mercy of some kind of whim.”
― The Divine Invasion
― The Divine Invasion
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