“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”
“Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.”
“The angel of death had cruised him. Death, that hustler, that last lover.”
“Let us live without hate among those who hate”
“Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.”
“Every schoolboy knows that the Indians used every part of the buffalo, which is true. But they did not use every part of every buffalo.”
“The very measure of God's power in a believer's life is dependent on how much of his life is ordered by the Holy Ghost.”
“I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be — and act — human.”
“See Scott run,
Run Scott run.
See Scott die,
No such luck.”
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