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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
"Time is the least thing we have of."
Philosophy
"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be."
Philosophy
"In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone."
Trust
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Romance
"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
Architecture
"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."
Spiritual
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
War
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