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There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.


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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.



There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.



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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.



True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.



The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.



Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.



Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.



Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.



If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.



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Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.





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Do not criticize others unless you are willing to accept criticism.



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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.



So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.



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In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.



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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.



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I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!




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