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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?"
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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"We don't defeat evil by becoming evil."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
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"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
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"For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat."
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"It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them."
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"Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?"
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"Old people are often impatient, but for what?"
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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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