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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. Politics

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A diary means yes indeed.

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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

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A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is m...

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Science

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Remarks are not literature.

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