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"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be."

"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."

"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

"The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend."

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
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