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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die."
"A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die."
"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives."
"Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up."
"But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions."
"Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; he would turn to look; but the prettier the face, the harder it was to take the plunge."
"The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes."
"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
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