"My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often."
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"For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come."
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"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things."
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"The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy."
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"We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet."
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"Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence."
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"The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book."
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"A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there."
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"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done."
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"The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation."
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"When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks."
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"I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in."
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"You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain."
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"You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution."
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"We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves"
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"So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world."
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"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
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"This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it."
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"I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove."
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"autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs."
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