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"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."
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"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."
"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."
"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
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"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."
"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life."
"Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107."
"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."
"If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you."
"At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture."
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