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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."

"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."
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"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"


"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."


"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."


"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."


"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."


"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
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