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“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
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“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.”
― The Adventures of Augie March
― The Adventures of Augie March
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