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"Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
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"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Love
"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."
Emotion
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Temptation
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
Satire
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
Art
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Love
"Most people are boring and stupid."
Society
"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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