"Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water."

-- Alexander Woollcott

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“When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.”
“True contentment comes with empathy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.”
“There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.”
“I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.”

Source : "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.
“Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.”
“My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.”

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