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“ To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. ”

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It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

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If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

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