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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.”
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“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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