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"The world doesn't make any heroes anymore."
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"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

"What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me."

"I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes."
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"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."

"Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition."

"Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again."

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

"There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess."
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