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"Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs."
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"The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose."
"Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. All of them were arresting. One of them was unforgettable. The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a caption that read: 'Forgive Them Their Trespasses.' It showed three small boys fishing in an odd-looking body of water, one of their jackets draped over a 'No Fishing!' sign. The tallest boy, in the foreground of the picture, appeared to have rickets in one leg and elephantiasis in the other--an effect, it was clear, that Miss Kramer had deliberately used to show that the boy was standing with his feet slightly apart."
"His gaze, bluntedby the unnumbered processionof iron bars, uncountedas his softly padded steps.Smooth motion of blood and sinewturning in its own, small circleprescribed by bars and walls...and skin, confined.Suddenly, without warning,a flash of light and imagepierces the caged brain,and passing through its beating heartto stillness finds its way."
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
"There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy."
"Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walkonly on feelings. That faces upwardand in its mirrorreceives heavenly roads, which travelalong themselves.That has learned to walk upon waterwhen it scoops,that walks upon wells,transfiguring every path.That steps into other hands,changes those that are like itinto a landscape:wanders and arrives within them,fills them with arrival."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."
"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
"What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
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