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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."

"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."

"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."

"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."

"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."

"One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider."
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