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"I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something."
"It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like."
"If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive."
"Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence."
"As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in."
"He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen."
"If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed."
"Nothing lasts forever. Highs, lows, it's all fine. A little gentler with it. Because I really used to think things going well, for some reasons, would be much more terrifying internally than things being a bit chaotic for me."
"If you would be good, first believe that you are bad."
"I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half."
"I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names."
"But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen."
"News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import."
"The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)"
"Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing."
"I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?"
"I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person."
"If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics."
"A world without open country would be universal jail."
