"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
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"... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship."
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"Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled."
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"As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish."
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"Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained."
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"Short boughs, long vintage."
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"Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem"."
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"Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength."
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"The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time."
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"It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it."
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"The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?"
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"Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music."
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"You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long."
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"I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?"
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"Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them."
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"A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do."
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"Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage."
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"None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild."
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"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
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"Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature."
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