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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
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