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"I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me."
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"I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'"
"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."
"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."
"She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more."
"I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me."
"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
"I am not a morning person."
"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."
"Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous."
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"Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism."
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"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
"He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about."
"A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself."
"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
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