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“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call huma...”
“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.”
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
“In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon.”
“In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.”
“To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I dont know what I want at all, even from her, and I dont think about anything but her.I have a great animated distracti...”
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still reta...”
“Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They ha...”
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialisman ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
“He had to pause for his usual misgivings.”
“Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been r...”
“What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.”
“I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.”
“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth,Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she was an unbearable detailOf the supreme celestial map,Of which I had...”
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still ret...”
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
