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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
"What branch do you want to go in? "I don' give a god-damn, said Pilon jauntily. "I guess we need men like you in the infantry. And Pilon was written so. He turned then to Big Joe, and the Portagee was getting sober. "Where do you want to go? "I want to go home, Big Joe said miserably. The sergeant put him in the infantry too."
"And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey-a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go. "Don't you like it here? "Sure. It's all right, but I wish I could go. "You don't even know where I'm going."I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere."
"We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way."
"There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered. Another kind of traveler requires to know in terms of maps exactly where he is pin-pointed at every moment, as though there were some kind of safety in black and red lines, in dotted indications and squirming blue of lakes and the shadings that indicate mountains. It is not so with me. I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states."
"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
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"There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly."
"Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate."
"Be careful who you share your dreams with whilst they are still in the creation stage. Doubt kills dreams."
"Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!"
"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."
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