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"What are 'profit,' 'an account book,' and 'interest' other than names made up for human greed"

"When someone asked Plato, 'What sort of person does Diogenes seem to you?' he replied, 'Socrates gone insane.'"

"The bells are the music of the wind; listen to them."

"It's okay, you're okay, it's okay, you're okay."

"Perhaps the definitive Midwest drunken-lesbian food memoir." —Kim Severson

"February is as useless as the extra r in its name."

"It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive."

"Since it was hardly in the best national interest to relieve citizens of their violence, greed, fear, or repression, the government acted..."

"Death bests thee even while thou liveth."

"I stink, therefore I am."

“The soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment”

"Make love when you can. It's good for you."

"There are some worse off than I," was a remark that voiced the only solace to be had in those days.

"The varying aspects of the sky, the very smells rising from the soil that mark each change of season, were taken notice of for the first time."

"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."

I could make a career of bein' blue
I could dress in black and read Camus
Smoke clove cigarettes and drink Vermouth