You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.
Tags: hopelessness, hope

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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
Tags: read, because, just, everything
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Tags: new, think, beginning, good
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Tags: know, travel, son, money
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Tags: side, some, book, sometimes
First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.
Tags: wariness, relationships, new-friends, friendship, colleagues
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