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“... I couldn't help thinking that pasta is overrated. Anything that doesn't need a knife seems to me to lack the essentials of a proper meal.”
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“Love had a thousand shapes.”
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“... your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
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“... television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.”
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“But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.”
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“It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.”
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“Her eyes were like two thumbtacks, trying to pin me to the wall.”