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"The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists."
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"My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations."

"I'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey."

"There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth."

"Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life."

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."

"A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend."

"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
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"Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we."


"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."


"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."


"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."


"A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?"


"If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man is the chief of this. All creations are his just inheritance. You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality."


"Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy."
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