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“There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.”
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“as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.”
Source : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”
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“You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.”
Source : Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.61, Dramatists Play Service Inc
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“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
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“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value ... wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”
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“When people come together, they become much more productive.”
Source : "The Physicist Turns the City" by Jonah Lehrer, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010. 
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“Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.”
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“I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater.”
