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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that."
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"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."


"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."


"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."


"The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence."


"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."
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