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• Most of our lives are about proving something, either to ourselves or to someone else.
• We are all interested in the future because that is where you and I will be spending the rest of our lives.
  .. -- "Criswell" in "Plan 9 From Outer Space...
• Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
  -- Marcel Marceau (1923-) French actor, pantomimi...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
  -- Frank Herbe...
• All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
  This seems to be our most urgent biological functio...
• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.
  ) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers....
• We gave our organs to science and plan to do the same with our piano.
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