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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
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"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."

"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."

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."

"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."

"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."

"I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot."

"Our differences are the real treasures."
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"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."


"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."


"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."


"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."


"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
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