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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immoral. Vice has always a new fresh…
When a child first catches adults out–when it first walks into his grave little heads that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into…
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.
“All great and precious things are lonely.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"And she picked her words as one picks flowers in a mixed garden and took her time choosing."
“…Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up…
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou…
If you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight…
"Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk."