"I would have been a Bokononist then, if there had been anyone to teach me the bittersweet lies of Bokonon."
"Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."
"'There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.'"
"'New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.'"
"'I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.'"
"As the driver talked to the salesman I wandered among the monuments - blank monuments, monuments in memory of nothing so far."
"'The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!'"
"I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we all could be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise."
"'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."
"'I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.'"
"And I found it impossible not to lean on God. I had never needed such support before, and so had never believed that such support was available."
"So good and evil had to remain separate; good in the jungle, and evil in the palace. Whatever entertainment there was in that was about all we had to give the people."
"The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did."
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