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See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human b...more

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God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a ...more

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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, ...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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and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

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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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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The ma...more

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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

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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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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me...more

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We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big par...more

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Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.