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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
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