Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
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I've always tried to be perfect. And I need to stop trying to be perfect and worry about becoming better.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
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I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.
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Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.