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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill…
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…
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The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky…
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Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such…
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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you…
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing…
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Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke.…
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I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on…
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Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.
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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on…
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Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
— Homer
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