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"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
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"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."

"However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once."

"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."

"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."

"I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

"A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return to his hot and squalid room and read a novel - or a poem. Wilson liked poetry, but he absorbed it secretly, like a drug. The Golden Treasury accompanied him wherever he went, but it was taken at night in small doses - a finger of Longfellow, Macaulay, Mangan: 'Go on to tell how, with genius wasted, Betrayed in friendship, befooled in love...' His taste was romantic. For public exhibition he has his Wallace. He wanted passionately to be indistinguishable on the surface from other men: he wore his moustache like a club tie - it was his highest common factor, but his eyes betrayed him - brown dog's eyes, a setter's eyes, pointing mournfully towards Bond Street."

"I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing."

"If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it."

"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
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