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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - [America] Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. - [Creativity] Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - [Life] Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. - [Nature] Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately. - [Possession] Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. - [Writing] "What did you make of the new couple?" - Couples [Books (First Lines)] Running out of gas, Rabbit Angstrom thinks as he stands behind the summer-dusty windows of the Springer Motors display room watching the traffic go by on Route 111, traffic somehow thin and scared compared to what it used to be. - Rabbit Is Rich [Books (First Lines)] Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them. - Rabbit Redux [Books (First Lines)] Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. - Rabbit, Run [Books (First Lines)] Caldwell turned and as he turned his ankle received an arrow. - The Centaur [Books (First Lines)] My country of Kush, landlocked between the mongrelized, neo-capitalist puppet states of Zanj and Sahel, is small for Africa, though larger than any two nations of Europe. - The Coup [Books (First Lines)]
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