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• ...no whiteness is so white as the memory of whiteness. -- William Carlos William
• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
• You slapped my face Oh but so gently I smiled At the caress. -- William Carlos William
• So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
  -- William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow...
• If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. -- New Testament -- Mark iii, 25
• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable.
  I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis....
• I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox And which you were probably saving for breakfast.
  Forgive me. They were delicious....
• Try medicine, why don't you! Lots to keep you busy, and lots to make you think.
  The great thing is--you get to forget yourself a lot of the time....