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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."

"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."

"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."

"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
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"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."

"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."

"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it."
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