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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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"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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"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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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
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"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."
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"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."
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"There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness."
Grief

"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
Life

"I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out."
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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."
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"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."
Life
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