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“... an actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.”
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“He had the patient, practical, uninterested tone of the white person willing to help a native with money or authority, so long as he is not expected to listen to any human details of the predicament.”
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“The world seems to be divided into two groups of people: those who say you can never get something for nothing, and those muddled but happy creatures who maintain that the best things in life are free.”
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“A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.”
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“About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.”
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“Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it and enriches itself from it.”
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“... ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.”
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“To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.”