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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
History

"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
Criticism

"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
Want

"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
Mystery

"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
Being

"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
Cleanliness

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
City

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
Gold

"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."
Enemy

"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
Death
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