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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
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"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
Diplomacy
"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Man
"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."
Food
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
Nature
"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
Communication
"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Life
"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."
People
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Writing
"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
Writing
"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."
Moon
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