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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
Being
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
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
"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
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
Cleanliness
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
City
"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
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Purpose
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
Criticism
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