Walter Tevis Quotes

#1. The Age of Technology has rusted.

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#2. In meeting Betty Jo he had learned that there was a large substratum of society that was totally unaffected by this middle-class prototype, that a huge and indifferent mass of persons had virtually no ambitions and no values whatever.

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#3. and I live alone everywhere. Altogether

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#4. When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming.

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#5. When literacy died, so had history.

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#6. Did they ruin your mind when they ruined your eyes, Mr Newton?' Newton

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#7. If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic

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#8. To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by.

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#9. everywhere alone.

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#10. Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.

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#11. it was the meaning of more than the game of pool, more than the five-by-ten-foot microcosm of ambition and desire. It seemed to him as if all men must know this because it is in every meeting and every act, in the whole gigantic hustle of men's lives.

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#12. The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.

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#13. I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

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#14. It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires - to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.

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#15. Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.

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#16. I am human. I talk and I listen and I read.

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#17. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

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