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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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