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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave."
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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."
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"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."
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"I'll perform all the way to the grave."
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"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."
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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave."
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"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
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"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."
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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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