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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. We...more

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow fal...more

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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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The sidewalks were haunted by dustghosts all night as the furnace wind summoned them up,swung them about, and gentled them down in a warm spice onthe ...more

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No,” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Rui...more

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And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final d...more

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June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autum...more

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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burnin...more

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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...more

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Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny...more

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How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we c...more