"I have been despised by better men than you."
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"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens."
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"The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self."
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"It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most."
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"The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST."
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"One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost."
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"A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted."
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"I am young, but I have been through a lot."
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"Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been."
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"The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey."
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"I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer."
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"I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it."
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"no project is completed until its objective has been achieved."
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"All my life has been about proving myself."
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"Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to."
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"There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'."
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"I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'"
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"I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke."
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"I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones."
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"My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing."
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