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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.


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But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.



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if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.



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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.



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Agony without genius was gaucherie.



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When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.



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Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.



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I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.



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I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.



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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.



I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.





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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.



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In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.



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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.



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When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.




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