I felt that I had met someone from home.
(The Player Piano)
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.Randall Jarrell
A spark burns, high in heaven.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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But the angel does not speak.
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Often, to the lion, the saint said, Son.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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