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 A white wall is the fool's paper.  Enthusiasm signifies God in us. In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. Being human, we should bear all we can. I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them. I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays. The most important office is that of private citizen. Novelist Peter de Vries, like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain, has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously. They know enough who know how to learn. I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead. You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward. I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. I never lost a game. I just ran out of time. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise. It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. 
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