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"Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside."
"They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise."
"If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself."
"Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more."
"Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world."
"Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't."
"Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths."
"The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want."
"I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly."
"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
"I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning."
"Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual."
"I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests."
"In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind."
"It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."
"There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world."
"Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in."
"I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world."
"I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world."
"Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else."
