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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

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I bought a second-hand Blickensderfer typewriter for $15. When you pecked one letter you brought down a cylinder covered with the whole alphabet.

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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

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At football I had my try-outs and found that after being slammed to the ground a few times I had no interest in my studies.

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If anthropology is the science dealing with man as an animal, at those meetings you could hear man as the animal who can spill and spout language.

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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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My black-bordered editorial on the death of President McKinley had a few good sentences but was stilted and perfunctory.

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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

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We were very near to being Middle Class though the Old Man was still a blacksmith's helper.

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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

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The girl rated as decent kept away from the powder and rouge. In public a girl's ankle and sometimes calf could be seen only when she was in a gym or swim suit.

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The manager of a small vaudeville theater said he would give me a tryout. I went on a second night. I stayed shy of show business. I was fuzzy-minded about it.

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I was a call man for the fire department. My job most often was to connect with a hydrant and with a wrench turn on the water.

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Every couple that kept going steady over the four years I was at college were later reported as married.

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

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