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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."
Ignorance
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
Poor
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
Imagination
"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."
Observation
"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
Location
"New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."
Location
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Truth
"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Man
"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
Imagination
"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."
Mind
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