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Virgil Thomson

"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."
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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
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