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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
Society

"I am married to someone I love."
Love

"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action

"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
Envy

"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
Thought

"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
Being

"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
People

"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun

"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy

"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
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