Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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No woman of our time has gone further with less mental equipment.
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly.
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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
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We are all citizens of history.
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
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I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.
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