"Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write."
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"White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing."
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"I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive."
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"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one."
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"Frenchman: Germans with good food."
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"I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God."
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"Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government."
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"I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!""
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"A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic."
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"If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies."
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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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"Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive."
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"In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm."
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"People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from."
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"Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places."
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"Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature."
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"If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do."
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