whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a … - Kay Boyle

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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

Kay Boyle

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

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Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds. . . there's the one you give and the other you take.

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Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers. . . for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

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Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. . . . I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

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