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Twain would suffer the lifelong financial anxiety of someone whose family fortunes had crashed in early life.

Elena metió todo ahí dentro. Todo menos la ropa; la ropa no pudo, conservaba su olor, el olor de su hija. La ropa siempre conserva el olor que tuvo en vida el muerto, Elena sabe, aunque se la lave mil veces con distintos jabones, un olor que no responde a un perfume determinado, ni a un desodorante, ni al jabon blanco con el que se lavaba cuando todavía había quien la ensuciara.

Humor proved a survival strategy with a humorless father. Where Judge Clemens gravitated to the safety of courts, railroads, and libraries, his son would become a confirmed renegade against institutions and pride himself on a wild, lawless streak.

The father who found humor in nothing spawned a son who found humor in everything. It is easy to see how the aloof Judge Clemens, who hated disorder and was emotionally remote, produced a rebellious, devil-may-care son and left him with an enduring ambivalence toward authority figures.

Billy coughed when the door was opened, an when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordanc with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton

This law tells us that for every action there is a reaction which is equal and opposite in direction.
This can be useful in rocketry.

This was a fairly pretty girl, except tha she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano.

How many generations ever had a true chronicler at the deep heart's core?"

…and a sizable group of American writers had by 1934 decided that the cure for what ailed them was solidarity with the working class, the overthrow of the capitalist system, and some kind of revolution, however ill-defined.

Every book of value reflects the prevailing temper of the time during which it was written

Strange to think that we could leave, just as we pleased, stepping on what had been ocean. Animals might come and go, and we could walk across the sea, but the ice led to vaster wilderness, and we were not strong enough to carry our supplies.

“We thought we had set aside great stores, but this winter was longer, colder, and darker than any we had known. We finished our salted meat and rationed our dried cod. As other creatures do in winter, we ate less and slept longer. The nights were so long that it seemed the whole world was asleep.”

I felt a new spirit of attentiveness to nature, no less wonderful for being entirely unoriginal, for as old as it is as a human experience, it was new to me. For many years, the seasons had largely passed me by, my perceptions of the steady cycle of nature disrupted by travel and urban life.

“Maybe the hare's dubious reputation, I thought, has less to do with the hare itself than our habit as humans of persecuting the things that we do not understand, and our own conflicted natures.”

“each day the leveret enchanted me with its even, gentle temper and unwavering sweetness of character”

Here we were. Were we not? If not, who spoke? Who heard?
percival "dash" collier

“To stay, one must deeply and continuously dwell upon one's primary reason for staying; even to the exclusion of all else.
roger bevins iii

One must be constantly looking for opportunities to tell one's story.
hans vollman”

“We can’t be good unless we know what bad is” p. 178

If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

“The first thing I perceive is time. I sense it as a slow, cruel current of enormous mass passing constantly through my body to gradually overcome me.”

there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, 'Look, there's the Moon." Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth."

"You never leave the house?"
"Never, haven't for some years. At one point in my life, I made a few quite precise calculations: if I leave the house in search of the company of one intelligent person, one honest person, I run the risk of meeting en route a dozen thieves and half as many idiots who stand poised to communicate to me their views on mankind, the national government, the city administration...

“It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny”

“To live is to feel pain… and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live”

"I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time, without people hearing what one says."

“I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately-but I play with wonderful expression.”

Music ... creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moon-light, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.