It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

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To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

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Military people have a heavy investment in rules against torture, not only because we want to protect our own POWs from reciprocal brutalities… but also because war is so terrible that it desperately requires any limits anyone can agree on, any gesture toward dignity, any mitigation suggesting civilized scruple. There isn’t even persuasive evidence that torture makes its victims tell their secrets, instead of saying whatever we want to hear.

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