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"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."
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"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
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"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
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"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
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