For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

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When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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