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I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The cautious seldom err.

Small projects need much more help than great.

A room without books is a body without soul.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.