
“Whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool in the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?”
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“Eliza and I believed then what I believe even now: That life can be painless, provided that there is sufficient peacefulness for a dozen or so rituals to be repeated simply endlessly. Life, ideally, I think, should be like the Minuet or the Virginia Reel or the Turkey Trot, something easily mastered in a dancing school.”
― Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men

“Then I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me.”
― The Garden of Forking Paths
― The Garden of Forking Paths

“We write books because our children aren’t interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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