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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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"But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun."
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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."
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"It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
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"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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"It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
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