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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
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Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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Personally i'm always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
Charlotte Chandler - It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock -
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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