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"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
Family
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
Comfort
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
God
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Experience
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
Man
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
Skepticism
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
Growth
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
Actor
"To be alive at all involves some risk."
Risk
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