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"Idealist: a cynic in the making."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
"I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy, those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar."
"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."
"Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright."Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps."
"She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important."
"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."
"Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers."
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"Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell."
"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
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