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• She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the…
• In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was…
• Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass…
• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing…
• It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to…
• Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
• My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
• I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will…
• Lookin' back is a bad habit.
• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business…
• I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
• But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have…

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