"Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds."
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"No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous."
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"The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence."
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"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."
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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
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"People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people."
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"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
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"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
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"I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed."
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"Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best."
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"For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality."
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"Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag."
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"Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself."
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"I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member"
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"Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
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"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
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"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
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"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
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"Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation."
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