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A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: "Love is what you've been through with somebody." - [Matrimony] A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. - [Probability] All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. - [Murder] All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. - [Learning] Don't get it right, just get it written. - [Contracts] Don't let that chip on your shoulder be your only reason for walking erect. - [Ego] He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. - [Art] Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - [Humor] I hate women because they always know where things are. - [Women] It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. - [Questions] Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - [Consciousness] Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. - [Mankind] Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. - [Despair] Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other. - [Language] So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. - [Knowledge] The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. - [Dogs] The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. - [Future] There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. - [Cooperation : Safety] You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - [Lying] Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. - The 13 Clocks (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The train was twenty minutes late, we found out when we bought our tickets, so we sat down on a bench in the little waiting room of the Cornwall Bridge station. It was too hot outside in the sun. This midsummer Saturday had got off to a sulky start, and now, at three in the afternoon, it sat, sticky and restive, in our laps. - The Thurber Carnival [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK If you should walk and wind and wander far enough on one of those afternoons in April when smoke goes down instead of up, and nearby things sound far away and far things near, you are more than likely to come at last to the enchanted forest that lies between the Moonstone Mines and Centaurs Mountain. - The White Deer [Books (First Lines)]
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