"I had strongly hoped that they would say sweetbreads instead of testicles, but I was wrong."
- Meatless Days
"There are those among mankind, who can enjoy no relish of their being, except the world is made acquainted with all that relates to them, and think everything lost that passes unobserved; but others find a solid delight in stealing by the crowd, and modeling their life after such a manner, as is as much above the approbation as the practice of the vulgar." - An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow
"This, too, happens during illness." - This Too is Life
"Hope, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence." - On Marriage
"Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once." - The Crack-Up
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