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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

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People

Thinking

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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Right

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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Genius

Conversation

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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Nation

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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Courage

Madness

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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Man

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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Order

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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Theology

Universe

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.