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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."
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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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