"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

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"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

"I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again."

"The higher the building the lower the morals."

"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."

"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."

"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."