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#1

“One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”
― Isak Dinesen

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#2

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#3

“She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise she was perfect.”
― Truman Capote

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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

tags: attitude, definitions, fear, happiness, orthodoxy, puritanism, strictness

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#5

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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#6

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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