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Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - jus...more

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He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. ...more

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A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling...more

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He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

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You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder ...more

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There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

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Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie...more

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Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and genero...more

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It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by di...more