"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."

"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

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