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“Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.”
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“Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”
Source : "Bloody Men" l. 1 (1992)
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“Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.”
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“We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”
Source : "A hundred years of thinking about God: A philosopher soon to be rediscovered". U.S. News & World Report, February 23, 1998.
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“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
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“I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.”
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“A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.”
Source : "Brenton Thwaites and Odeya Rush on 'The Giver'". Interview with Matt Fagerholm, www.rogerebert.com. August 11, 2014. 
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“Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.”
