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- One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all…
- Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent…
- Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
- ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But…
- Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved…
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging…
- Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could…
- All we got is the family unbroke.
- Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not,…
- We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
- The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops…
- Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets…
- It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved,…
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna…
- American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we…
- I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing…
- The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
- Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
- A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is…
- All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
- All of them had a restlessness in common.
- My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her…
- But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand…
- Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and…
- Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle