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To see things as they really were
what an empoverishment!

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

His mother's face expressed a prayer for patience.

Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

his name. The gardener, if you

You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.