“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a [person] that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”
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“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.”
“The mark of the age is that terrible things happen but there is no 'evil' involved.”
“So anyhow I began my new then when I stepped out of my life routine worn bare and deep as…”
“One will pick up the worst of the other and lose the best of himself.”