Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
("Angle of Repose")
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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