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"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."
Life
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time
"Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation."
Life
"The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."
Brother
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
Success
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
Nature
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Success
"Time is the longest distance between two places."
Time
"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
Work
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
Life
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