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I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now—only that place were the books are kept.
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria, old as he is.
I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.
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All the world’s great have been little boys who wanted the moon.

Cup of Gold (1929)

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No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

East of Eden

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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II

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I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.

The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

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