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Why, For Example, Do The Great Writers Use Anticipation Instead Of Surprise? Because Surprise Is Merely An Instrument Of The Unusual, Whereas Anticipation Of A Consequence Enlarges Our Understanding Of What Is Happening.

Every Writing Teacher Gives The Subliminal Message, Every Time They Teach: 'your Life Counts For Something.' In No Other Subject That I Know Of Is That Message Given.

A Library Should Be Like A Pair Of Open Arms.

Do Not Keep Company With People Who Speak Of Careers. Not Only Are Such People Uninteresting In Themselves; They Also Have No Interest In Anything Interesting. . . . Keep Company With People Who Are Interested In The World Outside Themselves. The One Who Never Asks You What You Are Working On; Who Never Inquires As To The Success Of Your Latest Project; Who Never Uses The Word Career As A Noun -- He Is Your Friend.

Get Rid Of The Guns. We Had The Second Amendment That Said You Have The Right To Bear Arms. I Haven't Seen The British Really Coming By My House Looking For It. And Besides, The Right To Bear Arms Is Not An Absolute Right Anyway, As New York's Sullivan Law Proves. We Talk About Ourselves As A Violent Society, And Some Of That Is Right And Some Of It Is Claptrap. But I Think If You Took Away The Guns, And I Mean Really Take Away The Guns, Not What Congress Is Doing Now, You Would See That Violent Society Diminish Considerably.