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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible."
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"I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you."
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"Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship

"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
Spiritual

"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship

"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing

"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
Humor

"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
Life

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Philosophical

"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
Philosophy

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
People

"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
Education
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