"Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson."
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"Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late."
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"We are all alike, on the inside."
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"Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything"
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"There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."
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"Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend."
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"I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping."
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"Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth"
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"When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend."
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"There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless."
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"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word."
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"A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose."
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"Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence."
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"Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play."
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"Once you're dead, you're made for life."
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"What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be."
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"He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own."
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"This only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
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"There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that."
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"In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration."
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