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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

"There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation."

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.

Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.

[U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.

[T]here is a flaw in civilization from the instant it has to admit fear.

Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.