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“I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.” quote by Russell Hoban — Download Open image

“I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.”

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Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and…

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“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

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Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday.…

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“Mark you that and noat you wel.”

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“Seed of the little Seed of the wyld Seed of the berning is Hart of the chyld . . . Out goes the candl…

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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here…

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