Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
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