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“The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.”
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“An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.”
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“The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!”
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“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world. But would you ask to be anything else?”
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“Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.”
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“It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses.”
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“It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.”
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”