“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”
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“because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.”
“I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.”
“there is no truly honest autobiography.”
“the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.”
“From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.”
“Conflict is the very essence of life.”
“It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.”
“There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.”