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Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past's mistakes and the future's fears. I had to learn to close the front door to tomorrow and the back door to yesterday and settle down to here and now. -- Anonymous
Nobody laughed at Erich's screwball sarcasms and still I thought, "Yes, perish his hysterical little gray head, but he's half right -- Lili's got the big thing now and she wants to serve it up to the rest of us on a platter, only love doesn't cook and cut that way."