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“The Bible is the Word of God, not the Word of Craig, so don’t get a big head about it.”
Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
“Youth is a wonderful thing,” said Mr. Harrigan. “What a shame it’s wasted on children.”
Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.
Mr. Harrigan used that phone plenty. He was like the old maiden aunt who takes an experimental mouthful of brandy after sixty years of abstinence and becomes a genteel alcoholic almost overnight.
Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.
I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?
When an old man dies, a library burns.
In the twenty-first century, I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it’s probably a bad marriage.
