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A story is what remains when you leave out most of the action.
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More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.
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I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.
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I am that astonishment from which you write in those brief moments when you can write.
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If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
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In the morning I came awake as I always do, like a man trapped in a car going over a cliff.
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My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.
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There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.
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I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.
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My despair has long since been ground up fine and is no more than the daily salt and pepper of my life.
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There's more emptiness in the air than there used to be, and its spores grow flowers of dust in the lungs.
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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It is not always a comfort to find a like-minded person, another fraction of being who shares one's incompleteness.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.
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And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
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The world vibrates like a crystal in the mind; there is a frequency at which terror and ecstasy are the same and any road might be taken.
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A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.
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An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
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A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
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Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish.…It's almost as if we were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
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Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?
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Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off, I begin, and vice versa.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
February 4, 1925
Died:
December 13, 2011
(aged 86)
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