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“Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.”
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“Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.”
Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
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“Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!”
Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". 'Doctor Who' ('The Two Doctors'), 16 February - 2 March, 1985.
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“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
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“It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.”
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“Cut the mind at its root and rest in naked awareness”
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“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”
Source : "The Myth Maker". Interview with Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 1985.
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“Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.”