"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."

-- Jose Bergamin

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“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
“He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.”
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
“I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.”
“To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.”
“The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.”
“It just happens I write fast and always have done.”
“Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.”

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