...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.

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It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

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Slurring is the cursive of speech...

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Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in books, but that almost no one seems to possess. I was wondering to myself: How does she do that? And I figured it could only come from having no regrets - from having made choices with .... such poise and purpose.

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It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and create -- or at least, to have warranted the dropping of a question on one's plate.

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It was a marriage of two minds, of two ... spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites tilt toward the sun.

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The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.

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Most people have more needs than wants. That's why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.

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Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan, whichever came first.

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In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

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