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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"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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"Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"Don't play on safe, you must learn few rules and the other is just lessons."
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"Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable."
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"Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance."
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"If I must fall, may it be from a high place."
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"I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Marriage
"I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs."
Enemy
"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
"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."
Man
"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."
People
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."
Car
"Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love."
Love
"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
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
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