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There’s so much horseshit about babies; schools change every ten years. [My sister] raised a couple of nice ones by forcing them to be considerate or leave the room.... I think people act the way they’re expected to act.
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Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, $0 will our speech become one speech.
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And if I go alone, I don’t even have to talk.
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I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.
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I' would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
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A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.
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[New York] isn’t like the rest of the country—it’s like a nation itself-—more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
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The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn’t occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.
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