The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knots tied in a mighty public way.
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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
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The dead dont stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth ... and the ambitions they had ... and the things they suffered ... and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth thats the way I put it weaned away.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative.
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