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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.
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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
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A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
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A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780) -
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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