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The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side.

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

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We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

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Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

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Getting old is not for sissies.

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What a beautiful morning.

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