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"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
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"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."

"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled."

"A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up."

"That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated."

"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings."

"Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting."

"Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."


"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."


"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."


"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."


"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."


"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
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