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"I like simple men and complicated women."
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"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis."
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"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
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"Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
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"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
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"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
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"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
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"I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries."
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"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
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"Art is good, but happiness is better."
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"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
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"Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?"
Freedom
"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."
Mortality
"A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true."
Technology
"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
Humanity
"Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to it in thin-lipped tasteful bereavement? Why give him up if you can walk along the hall and find a way to place him within reach?Sink lower, she thought. Let it bring you down. Go where it takes you."
Grief
"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
Genius
"God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up."
Power
"If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things."
Time
"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality
"I am the false character that follows the name around."
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