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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"So much can be done, even when little is said. So little can be done, even when much is spoken."

"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."

"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."

"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."

"When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech."

"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."
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"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."

"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."

"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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