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• Then there's the atmosphere -- half the time you can eat the air, it's got so much stuff floating around in it.
  It takes the edge out of the colors. Down here even the traffic lights are pastel....
• here's nothing of any importance in life -- except how well you do your work.
  Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that....
• You first have to decide whether to use the short or the long form.
  The short form is what the Internal Revenue Service calls "simplified", which means it is designed for people who need the help of a Sears tax-preparation expert to distinguish between their first and last names....
• No, I understand now," Auberon said, calm in the woods -- it was so simple, really.
  I didn't, for a long time, but I do now. You just can't hold people, you can't own them....
• Goodman: Now, who knows how the Skinners could have resolved this problem?
  [everyone puts their hands up] Without resorting to violence....
• You don't just go to the Black Lodge and walk out with your girlfriend.
  -- Karl, explaining the last episode of Twin Peak...
• People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals.
  It is the poor jerk who is shy half a slug who must tighten his belt....
• Grades are not why people go to school. You go to school to learn the basics so that you apply it to REALLY learn in real life.
  What grade you got today will never predict what you will be in, say, ten years from now....