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The journey is over. Love to all.

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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
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. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature it is an occupational hazard.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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