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  1. When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, W…
  2. Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
  3. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where the…
  4. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be t…
  5. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of d…
  6. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a str…
  7. The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writin…
  8. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on t…

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