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"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."
"The quieter the mind the louder the soul."
"The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing."
"Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it."
"The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul."
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"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
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