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"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."

"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."

"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."

"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."

"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."

"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."
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