Marcel Proust Quotes
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.
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I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
