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“I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic ... it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.”
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“When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.”
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“Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.”
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“Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far more often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.”
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“If two people are to resolve their differences, they first have to find out what those differences are. Each has to be able to hear what the other one wants.”
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“Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?”
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“... thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.”
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“If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.”