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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before;
you see more in you than there was before.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.