They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
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