A screaming comes across the sky.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Shall I project a world?
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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