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Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. 
Pre-Cambrian Memory. 
And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger. 
The law was designed to save, not to destroy. 
He wanted to say something beautiful, I think. 
Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself. 
Every little boy thinks he invented sin. 
It ain't kin we? It's will we? 
Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone. 
black gloom settled over the Palace Flophouse. 
They knew it would take a long time for the dust to settle out of the air. 
The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do. 
It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. 
...people don't take trips - trips take people. 
I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. 
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. 
He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory. 
I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back. 
A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it. 
A light in the daytime is a lonely thing. 
When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond. 
Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time." Her 
You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit. 
I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it. 
She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it. 
A man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star. 
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. 
I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present. 
There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty. 
And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. 
That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. 
His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester. 
I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. These 
No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him. 
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. 
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart ... 
Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. 
I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world. 
Anything that just costs money is cheap. 
the dirty romans are forming up for calvery. 
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[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the worldthat the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? 
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. 
And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. 
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. 
Timshel - thou mayest 
turning its periscope head from side to side. Suddenly 
You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too. 
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. 
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. 
Woman can change better'n man," Ma said soothingly. "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head. 
It don't cost money to ask. 
People don't want advice ... only corroboration. 
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good. 
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. 
The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath. 
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. 
I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed either. 
Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta. 