"You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of."
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"I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."
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"The first casualty of war is innocence."
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"To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes"
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"You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it."
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"Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs."
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"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables."
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"Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge."
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"Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good."
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"My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary."
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"If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close."
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"Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third."
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"I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first."
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"The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose."
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"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
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"I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper."
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"First you win the argument, then you win the vote."
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"If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again."
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"Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then"
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"I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists."
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