.. As I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Helen Simonson
..I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
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He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.
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philosophy
He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
relationships
The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.
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We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
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Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
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But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do.. Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
relationship
He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter--the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face.
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