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- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so…
- The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was…
- If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same…
- All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
- You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
- Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
- The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell…
- We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death…
- A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of…
- Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
- So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
- Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
- I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes…
- Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
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