"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."
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"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
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"As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value"
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"He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?"
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"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even."
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"All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well."
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"I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self."
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"Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills."
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"When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned."
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"I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way."
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"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."
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"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
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"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
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"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster."
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"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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