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 At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.  The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person. Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. A good friend is my nearest relation. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Gray hair is God's graffiti. Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. - Virgil To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery. - Seneca I hope you live to be as old as your jokes. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed. In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents. 
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