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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."
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"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
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"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship
"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing
"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
Humor
"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
Life
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Philosophical
"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
Philosophy
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
People
"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
Faith
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
God
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