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• Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to…
• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it.…
• The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at…
• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.…
• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions…
• This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry…
• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
• But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but…

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