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"When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift."
"Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them."
"Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in."
"The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it."
"Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride."
"It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way."
"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
"The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong."
"Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose."
"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation."
"The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving."
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
"Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living."
"We see which way the stream of time doth run."
"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
"I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends."
"Let him smell his way to Dover!"
"I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you"
"His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way."
"If money go before, all ways do lie open."
