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"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."
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Personal Development
"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."
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Personal Development
"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."
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Personal Development
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
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"In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there."
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"The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife."
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"The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater."
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"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English."
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"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."
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"My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for."
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"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
Art
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
God
"If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say: 'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!"
Writing
"The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved."
Society
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths."
Psychology
"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."
Philosophy
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
Happiness
"We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor."
Reflection
"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
Difference
"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
Direction
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