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Randall Jarrell Quotes: It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
         

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.


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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.



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The ways we miss our lives are life.



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Read at whim! Read at whim!



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Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.



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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.



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