"It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I've never declined to do an interview.”
“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”
“The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”
“I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.”
“Started out, Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho... What is zaftig? Isn't that German for big fat pig? I guess I was lucky- zaftig is kind of a nice word. It could have been, Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho.”
“Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.”

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“[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.”
“A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.”

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