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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
Life
"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
War
"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
Government
"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."
God
"One's life has many compartments."
Life
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
American
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
Contempt
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