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There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. All Socialism involves slavery. Man, an animal that makes bargains. I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him? (Ars longa, vita brevis.) Art is long, life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. The End of every maker is himself. Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen. He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Art, it seems to me, should simplify. They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making, in all, two.
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