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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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