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1 " The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. "
― Norman Mailer , The Deer Park
2 " There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. "
3 " Where, in what cemetery of the heavens, did the tender words of lovers rest when they loved no longer? "
4 " There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow old or else pay more for remaining the same. "
5 " …his memory, like a battered drunk at the end of a spree, groped over the events of the last six weeks. "
6 " Even now she was very patriotic, and like most patriots she felt strongly and thought weakly, and so it was not easy to argue with her. "
7 " The years pass into the years and we count our time in lonely private rhythms which have little to do with number or judgment or the uncertain shifting memory of friends. "
