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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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Memory of the knife will be gone when the flesh is gone.

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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than whe...more

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...more

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks ...more

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Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

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People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then almost invariably end up with some very tiny detai...more

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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...more

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and wha...more

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It seems to me that 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 b...more

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Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

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Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and genero...more

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It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memor...more