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God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. I’ve finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this: ‘Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.’ It ends like this: ‘Poo-tee-weet?

That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?

Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted,Once, that nothing in the world would everDestroy your fame; fight to keep it,Now, be strong and brave, my nobleKing, protecting life and fameTogether. My sword will fight at your side!

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Science has eliminated distance, Melquíades proclaimed. In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house.

From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

You have her father’s love, Demetrius;Let me have Hermia’s: do you marry him.

It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.

I will not trust you, I,Nor longer stay in your curst company.Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,My legs are longer though, to run away.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyesTo seek new friends and stranger companies.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead.”Get those bad thoughts out of your head,” he told her. “You’re going to be happy.

But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

The bottle of whiskey – the second one – was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who ‘felt just as good on nothing at all.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

Be as a tower, that, firmly set,Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.