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Arthur was very small. He was all white, like a doll that hadn't been painted yet.

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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It takes three to make a child.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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