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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."

"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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"Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air."

"Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops."

"Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too."
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