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"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date."

"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."

"The best way to truly live a consistent life of passion is to formulate daily habits and a daily routine that engages you and makes you feel more passionate about life."

"I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."

"He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words."

"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"

"People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book."
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"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."

"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

"My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him."

"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."

"Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter."
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