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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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Being Ignored Rivals Unmanned
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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Love People Wind
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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Hair Ocean Powerful
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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Feet Knows Needs
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Another Day Religious
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Environment Growth Winning
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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Book People Procedure Way
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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Collaboration Compromise Heart

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