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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
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I believe there is only one race - the human race.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
E! Online, 12-20-03 -
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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