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“Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.”
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“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”
Source : Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin
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“Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.”
Source : A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'
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“Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.”
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“I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.”
Source : "Man about the house". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008. 
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“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”
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“I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and it makes you get yourself in gear. It's healthy competition that helps make some great music.”
