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- I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage…
- Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides…
- It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
- There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city…
- We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever…
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