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"When the child leaves, and the window goes on looking out on empty walls, you will sit and dream of old things, and ponder your learning. You will think of old facts, and sudden seeing which made you more than you had bargained for..."

"There were holes in the world. Holes everywhere. I filled them with whatever I could find. My pain, or laughter, secret learning, and ..."

"Bums have the same qualifications as any of us to run for president, and it is the measure of society that they refuse to. And this is not romanticism, but simple cultural observation. Bums know at least as much about the world as Senator Fulbright. You better believe it."