"True friends share everything, except the past before they met."

-- Mary Renault

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“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”
“Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.”
“The true seeing is when there is no seeing.”
“While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.”
“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”
“You have to find whatâ€™s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”
“It is not the position, but the disposition.”
“Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.54, New York Review of Books

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