"Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways."
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"I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail."
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"I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled."
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"You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living."
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"If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it."
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"I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics"
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"Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know."
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"I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow."
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"I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me."
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"I used to vote Democrat."
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"I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good."
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"I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel."
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"You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely."
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"I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be."
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"I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again."
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"People always get used to beauty though."
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"That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up."
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"I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books."
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"[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
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"I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home."
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