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“Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.”
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“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.”
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“... it would have been a Fault in her, not to have been Faulty.”
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“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
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“I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.”
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“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.”
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“... I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...”
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“Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.”