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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"Lust and flirting are dangerous because at first they are not noticeable."
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
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"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."
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"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck."
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"What you risk reveals what you value."
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Personal Development
"If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear."
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Personal Development
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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"Hypocrite shouts about the change,but never let risk coming on his way."
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"You try almost dying, being chased, thenhopping in a car with a complete (horny)stranger."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
Risk
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
Influence
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
Man
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."
People
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