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"The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication."
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."
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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."
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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."
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"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."
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"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."
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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness
"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
Religion
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
Pretty
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
Habit
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
Appearance
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
Heart
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Freedom
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
Beauty
"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."
Acceptance
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
Personality
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