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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"Hey, would you look at that shit?"I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle."Clear out!" I barked.They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else."

"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."

"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."

"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."

"When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg."
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"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?"


"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


"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."


"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."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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