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When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

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Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

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In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.

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The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

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If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

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All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

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All love comes from the family.

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The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

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I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

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An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

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