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  1. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a…
  2. 'I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions'.
  3. I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around he…
  4. 'You love God, don't you?' Nicholson asked, with a little excess of quietness. 'Isn't that your forte, so to speak? From what I heard on th…
  5. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
  6. 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him. 'Do I know who?' 'Adam. In the Bible.' Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
  7. Outside the building, she started to walk west to Lexington to catch the bus. Between Third and Lexington, she reached into her coat pocket…
  8. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so t…

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