It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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What is meant by ''reality'' It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials.
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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