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I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
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I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
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I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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