My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
("Animal Dreams")
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To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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