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"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"Quality is better than quantity."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."
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"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."


"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."


"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."


"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."


"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."


"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."


"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
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