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Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth,...more

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I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as we...more

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Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

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She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I becom...more

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And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent t...more

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It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have calle...more

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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continui...more

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Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admira...more

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...without money you cannot fight money.

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The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

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The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on t...more

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Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

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An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

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It ain't kin we? It's will we?

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But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This lan...more