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"I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection."
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"To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all."
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"My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree."
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"How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men."
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"I am a terrible sleeper."
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"The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process."
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"Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows."
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"Parents, you know, can be terrible."
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"I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake."
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"Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing."
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"Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life."
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"It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible"
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"Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!"
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"I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you."
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"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."
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"The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because."
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"Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live."
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"It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs."
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"Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen."
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