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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."

"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."

"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter."


"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."


"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."


"How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life."


"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"


"When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line."
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