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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

"I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents."

"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

"I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present."

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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