"It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others."

-- Julian Barnes

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“As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.”
“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
“Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.”
“Two things I ain't ever seen, a U.F.O. and a hoe that won't go.”
“I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.”
“Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.”
“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!”
“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”

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