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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

"Be different to make a difference."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
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