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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
Reality
"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
Time
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
Hope
"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."
Success
"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
Education
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
Fear
"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."
Fight
"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
Death
"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
Talent
"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
Business
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