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"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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