"I tried to learn the violin for a while."

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Peter Wright

“We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
“I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?â€ â€œPretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.â€ Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. â€œWhen all else fails, just do that.”
“Whatever advice you give, be short.”
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.”
“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
“Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.”

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