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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent."
"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."
"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."
"I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable."
"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
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