I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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