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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register
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“She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.”
― Year of the Monkey
― Year of the Monkey
“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Black Swans
― Black Swans
“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”
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“Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!”
― What Men Live by and Other Tales
― What Men Live by and Other Tales
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