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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
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A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
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