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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."

"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."

"Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished."

"A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you."

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."
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