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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."
"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
"How you see the world may not be how others view it."
"To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent."
"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins."
"You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!"
"Future dreams distract you from present nightmares."
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"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
"A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself."
"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
"Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me-I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you."
"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
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