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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
"I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people."
"I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it."
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood."
"Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up."
"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear"
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
"Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
"Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music."
"Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'."
"You can't handle the truth!"
"The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future."
"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
"Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
