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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."
"But suppose your dA mon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dA mon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up."
"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."
"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."
"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."
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