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“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.”
“It is not possible to make a mistake,” she assured me. I did not know that this was a customary greeting given by all Bokononists when meeting a shy person.
A lover’s a liar, To himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!
“TODAY I WILL BE a Bulgarian Minister of Education,” Bokonon tells us. “Tomorrow I will be Helen of Troy.” His meaning is crystal clear: Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
“As the poet said, Mom, ‘Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.” ’”
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
