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"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
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"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."


"It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman."


"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."


"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."


"(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car."
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