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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
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"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."

"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."

"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."

"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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