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“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”
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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
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“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.”
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''”
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“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”
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“There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter”
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“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”
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“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”
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“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”
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“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”
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