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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."

"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."

"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"

"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
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"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

"I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."

"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."

"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."

"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."

"I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage."

"I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily."

"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."

"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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