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"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."
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