Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
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