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“To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.”
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“I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”
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“Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.”
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“Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”
Source : William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing
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“It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.”
Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”
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“I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.”
Source : Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”
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“Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.”
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“It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.”
