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You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

Douglas Coupland

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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

Audrey Niffenegger

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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

Lloyd Alexander

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Very early in my life it was too late.

Marguerite Duras

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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C.S. Lewis

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