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"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
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"Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life."

"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."

"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."

"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."
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"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."

"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
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