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- He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that…
- The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not…
- Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
- And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU…
- That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has…
- From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not…
- Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?…
- For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition…
- I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
- What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has…
- It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
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