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» It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

» School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

» Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

» America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

» Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

» Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

» Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

» For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

» A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

» If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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