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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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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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"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."
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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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"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave."
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
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"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"I'll perform all the way to the grave."
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"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my 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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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
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