I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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I have wished you something None of the others would....
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Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin
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