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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"
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"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."

"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."

"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
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