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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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"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."
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"Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results."
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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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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"Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans."
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"Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France."
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."
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"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
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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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"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
Communication
"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
"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
"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
Diplomacy
"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Life
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
Nature
"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
"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Man
"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
Writing
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Writing
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