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The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat


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If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.



Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.



Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.



Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.



Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.



People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.



When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.



Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.



It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.



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Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.





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Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that.



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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.



It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.



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My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.



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You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.



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You have to be the first, best or different.

You have to be the first, best or different.



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that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder




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