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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea.
  I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek....
• In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its asce
  but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks....
• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.
  The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself- a broader shadow....
• The problem with all the excitement this world furnishes me on a daily basis is that most of it is now getting to be just a little boring.
• Now, folks, all I know is what little news I read every day in the paper.
  I see where another wife out on Long Island in New York shot her husband....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....
• Homer: {Whoa, whoa, whoa -- let me get this straight.
  They let everybody out of school early just because _you_ brought a dog?...
• Homer: Well, here we are at the Brad Goodman lecture.
  Lisa: We know, Dad. Homer: I just thought I'd remind everybody....
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....