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They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.
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Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.
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Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old.
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Myself: But wasn't the decision a right one? Am I not here? What more could Feeling have achieved than was brought about by Reason?
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And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.
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He gave me this advice one time: Never marry your childhood sweetheart, he said; the reasons that make you choose her will all turn into reasons why you should have rejected her.
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He became an unimaginative woman's creation. Delilah had shorn his locks and assured him he looked much neater and cooler without them. He gave her his soul, and she transformed it into a cabbage.
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Wisdom may be rented...on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever.
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I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.
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...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.
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I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.
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Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession.
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Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.
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But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
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If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.
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You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
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Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.
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But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.
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...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.
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Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody.
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What had Pledger-Brown said? "Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.
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The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.
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..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation.
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The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.
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Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.
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How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.
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What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!
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Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.
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If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?
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You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.
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...one's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy and certainly deeply felt show of their own.
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The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
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But I was a lonely creature, and although I would have been very happy to have a friend I just never happened to meet one.
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He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
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