"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

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"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

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"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."

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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."

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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."

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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."

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