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Wallace Shawn

"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years."

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"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."

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"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years."
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