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Jacques Maritain

"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."

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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."

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"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."

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