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"I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that'spractically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, ofcourse."
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"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."

"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."

"Leisure is being allowed to do nothing."

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

"If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time."
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"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."

"I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all."

"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."

"Do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean."

"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?"

"And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."
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