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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."
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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
Friendship
"But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization."
Philosophy
"I have no words - alas! - to tellThe loveliness of loving well!"
Romance
"Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility."
Emotion
"This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes."
Governance
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence" whether much that is glorious" whether all that is profound" does not spring from disease of thought" from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
Philosophy
"I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane."
Psychology
"Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration."
Knowledge
"The grandeur that was Rome."
History
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
Poetry
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