"A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think."
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"And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth."
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"I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict."
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"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."
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"You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!"
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"I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim."
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"Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad."
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"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal."
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"What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?"
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"As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said."
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"Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves."
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"Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity."
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"Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
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"Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around."
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"Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right."
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"I never really said all those things I said"
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"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
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"Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have."
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"I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said."
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"Like I said...fine with me."
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