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Martin C. Smith

"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."

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"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
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"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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