KURT VONNEGUT

"I have loved only four women in my life -- my mother, my late wife, a woman to whom I was once affianced, and one other. I will describe them all by and by. Let it be said now, though, that all four seemed more virtuous, braver about life, and closer to the secrets of the universe than I could ever be."

(Jailbird)
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JACK ZAMBERLIN

"Almost all of his hard work means nothing. Maybe once in a man's life there comes this job he must do. He has no choice. And, something appears. It speaks without words. It is heard only in the complete silence of failure. Its message is timeless. Its meaning is life."

(Slapout, Oklahoma)
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DOUGLAS ADAMS

"They (the Vogons) are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy -- not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters."

(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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