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 A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable.  Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. - Bible If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law. In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. 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. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk. War is the national industry of Prussia. - Mirabeau What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. 
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