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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
People

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
Living

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."
Time

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."
Music

"I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon."
Time

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
Jazz

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
Being

"I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old."
Old

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."
Fun
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