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"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

"It's sarcasm, Josh.'Sarcasm?'It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.'Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing.'There you go, you got it.'Got what?'Sarcasm.'No, I meant it.'Sure you did.'Is that sarcasm?'Irony, I think.'What's the difference?'I haven't the slightest idea.'So you're being ironic now, right?'No, I really don't know.'Maybe you should ask the idiot.'Now you've got it.'What?'Sarcasm."

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."

"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."

"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness."

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."

"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."

"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
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