The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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.
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.
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative.
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.
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thats what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know thats the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
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