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• I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I…
• Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
• Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it,…
• There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like…
• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux,…
• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one…
• Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
• Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
• A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will…
• Nothing fails like failure
• Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

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