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“You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.”
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“Usually I say I have no imagination.”
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“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”
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“A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.”
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“If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.”
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“Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.”
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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Source : Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”
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“The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.”
Source : "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010. 
