Art is the triumph over chaos.
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.John Cheever
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
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I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.
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