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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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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."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
Friendship

"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day."
Woman

"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
Autobiography

"Sex is a two-way treat."
Sex

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
Business

"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."
Being

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
Job

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
Solitude

"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Experience
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