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- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
- Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
- We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
- I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
- In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit…
- new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
- Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
- But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.
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