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Quotes by Writer
"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."
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"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
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"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."
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"I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this."
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"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
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"Sometimes I think that we're the aliens."
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"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
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"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment."
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"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
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"So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
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"I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword."
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"It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay."
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"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
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"I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school."
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"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
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"When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?"
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"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
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"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
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"Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession."
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"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
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"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
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"In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half."
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"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
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"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
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"We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war."
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