No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple.
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The sun did not rise, it overflowed.
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
"Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty."
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
"Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft."
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury