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"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
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