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If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.
Whenever somebody says to me, “Maybe it’ll come with age,” I want to say, “I wouldn’t count on it.”
Solutions of style have a greater moral force than those of obligation.
Friends, no. But I would not waste my exertions cultivating anyone as an enemy.
Among the many unsurprising facts of life that, when taken in aggregate, ultimately spell out the doom of our species is this: People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention.
Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.
The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.
future and I are just about even, our quarrel all but resolved. I welcome its coming, and I resolve to be attentive to the details of its arrival. I plan to meet it at the station in my best white dress, violet corsage in hand. Waving as it comes into view, borne toward the present on its road of anthracite.
