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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.
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Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
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There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other, ... We always returned to it ... Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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