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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
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can only write about what bites you.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.