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“Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.”
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“... she ... kind o' heaves benefits at your head, same's she would bricks; but they're benefits just the same ...”
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“The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.”
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“There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life ... ”
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“Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.”
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“Vain favor! coming, like most other favors long deferred and often wished for, too late!”
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“Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.”
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“... he was a man with whom insult passed for wit and vulgarity for humor.”