Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.Elizabeth Bowen
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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