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"Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life."

"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."

"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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