Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

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