“There’s nothing to getting old, it takes nothing.” (Pg 6)
“Be what you are.” (Pg 10)
“Learn to understand your talents, and then work to develop them.”
(Pg 10)
“The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where
you’re going before you go there.” (Pg 26)
“You can’t make gold out of lead.” (Pg 51)
“After you’re first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of
takes the kick out of being second-rate.” (Pg 92)
“If you’re telling me I’m not mature, that’s one thing I don’t cry
over since as far as I can make out it’s the same thing as being dead.” (Pg 93)
“Funny, the world just can’t touch you once you follow your
instincts.” (Pg 94)
“You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that
maybe after all they’re right.” (Pg 109)
“Christianity isn’t looking for a rainbow. If it were what you
think it is we’d pass out opium at services. We’re trying to serve God, not be
God.” (Pg 115)
“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your
price.” (Pg 129)
“Some die young; some are born old.” (Pg 138)
“Men are all heart and women are all body. I don’t know who’s
supposed to have the brains.” (Pg 138)
“That’s what you have, Harry: life. It’s a strange gift and I
don’t know how we’re supposed to use it but I know it’s the only gift we get
and it’s a good one.” (Pg 192)
“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make
children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and
then outside, junk.” (Pg 194)
"It’s one thing to get hell
from other people and another from your own parents.” (Pg 247)
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