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“It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.”
“And memory.”
“Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.”

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that is is true and true of us. What a great burden of guilt men have!”

“I guess the last bad habit a man will give up is advising.”
“I don’t want advice.”
“Nobody does. It’s a giver’s present. Go through the motions, Adam.”
“What motions?”
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”

"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."

“People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that they are similar and from this tendency we create magics and store them for retelling.”