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"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."
"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."
"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."
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"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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