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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

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The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

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Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability.

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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

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