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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."
"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."
"The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks."
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