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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
"If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world."
"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
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