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“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”
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“No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons — all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.”
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“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts ... ”
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“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”
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“One of the side effects of doing too much is developing monotone minds. We spend so much time in our work and in work-related activities that our awarenesses and our perceptions become narrower and narrower. We reach a point where we can't talk about anything but our work and, if the truth be known, we don't want to talk about anything but our work ... We have taken a rainbow and compressed it into a solid, uninteresting beam of light.”
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“... a man who builds a house never really dies.”
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“ ... deafness is ... not just the disfigurement of words and it's not just broken ears. It's most often a barrier between person and person.”
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“There's no marriage that couldn't be a success, and no marriage that couldn't be a failure. It depends on the women who are in 'em!”