"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."
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"Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding."
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"If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner."
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"Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own."
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"Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot."
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"History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned."
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"I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom."
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"There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
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"I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now."
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"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
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"I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself."
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"I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out."
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"Always make room for the unexpected in yourself."
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"All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room."
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"I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in."
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"But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again."
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"Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world."
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"A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy."
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"don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous."
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"When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit."
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