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Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
[ Parents ]
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Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
[ Fiction ]
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
[ Language ]
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
[ Facts ]
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
[ Progress ]
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
[ Understanding ]
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