“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
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“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
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“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
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“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me look either as if I'm very rude and abrupt or as if I'm semi-autistic and have no sense of how to wind up a conversation gracefully...I've actually lost friends this way.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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