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People with big names aren't always big people.
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Youth. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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We're never too old for dreams.
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Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.
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Look the stars are out. Don't you wish you could reach out and pick them like flowers?" "I hadn't thought of it." "Life. That's the way life is to me, Howard. You keep picking things until you get the one thing that really matters. Tell me about your great love."
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You just go from day to day and before you know it fifty years are up.
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Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.
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The Outlaws generally write as well as the bankers, though more briefly. Some writers flourish like opportunistic weeds by hiding among the citizens, others by toughing it out in some sort of desert or another.
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She'd laugh at odd times as we talked and this flustered me pleasantly and made me laugh too, as if we both understood something we couldn't say.
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Because they were alone. In fact everyone was alone all the time, but when you got sick you knew it, and that was a lot of what suffering was-knowing.
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