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Samuel Johnson

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

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"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity."

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"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."

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"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."

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