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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?Source: From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
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Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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