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I came to New York to see what I could see — that's from a children's book, isn't it? — and to find the living part.
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The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.
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I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.
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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.
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The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.
