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"The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities."
"In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God."
"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny."
"If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets."
"I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way."
"You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you."
"Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day"
"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
"I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month."
"This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around."
"Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business."
"I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way."
"The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything."
"There is a better way to do it - Find it!"
"My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships."
"You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out."
"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."
"It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made."
"The doctrine of transmigration was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity."
