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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
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"The play of a pain is a party."
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"Uncanny situations, reasons to ponder for action!"
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"Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies-good or bad-cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good."
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"I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism."
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"The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived."
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"Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject."
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"The pain is necessary to find the power of being."
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"Today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take."
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"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."
Animals
"Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be."
Nature
"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."
Travel
"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."
Humor
"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."
Vision
"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."
Society
"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."
Science
"On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun."
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"Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed."
Light
"It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top."
Science
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