Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.Annie Dillard
I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and they wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, If I did not know about god and sin, would I go to hell. No, said the priest, not if you did not know, Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me.
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