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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955) p. 114 -
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
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