Land Is The Only Thing

She Could See So Clearly Now That He Was Only A Childish Fancy, No More Important Really Than Her Spoiled Desire For The Aquamarine Earbobs She Had Coaxed Out Of Gerald. For, Once She Owned The Earbobs, They Had Lost Their Value, As Everything Except Money Lost Its Value Once It Was Hers.

The Whole World Can't Lick Us But We Can Lick Ourselves By Longing Too Hard For Things We Haven't Got Any More - And By Remembering Too Much.

[t]he Merciful Adjustment Which Nature Makes When What Cannot Be Cured Must Be Endured.

In The End What Will Happen Will Be What Has Happened Whenever A Civilization Breaks Up. The People Who Have Brains And Courage Come Through And The Ones Who Haven't Are Winnowed Out.

I Was Never One To Patiently Pick Up Broken Fragments And Glue Them Together Again And Tell Myself That The Mended Whole Was As Good As New. What Is Broken Is Broken - And I'd Rather Remember It As It Was At Its Best Than Mend It And See The Broken Places As Long As I Lived.