"Banality is sometimes striking."
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"I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!"
"Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare."
"In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary."
"The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never."
"Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted."
"Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus."
"Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement."
"Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile."
"Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with."
"Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually."
"Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back."
"Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile."
"Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart."
"I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy."
"I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed."
"Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it."
"A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot."
"Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know."
"He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time."