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"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
Enemy
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
Being
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
Evolution
"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
Office
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
Architecture
"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
Perception
"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
Expectation
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
Marriage
"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
Dance
"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
Love
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