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it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

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You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.

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It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table.

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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

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Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

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It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.The problem's name is God.

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I was always lonely and I am lonely still.

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Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?