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“I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.”
Source : DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.71, Faber & Faber
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“People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.”
Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004. 
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“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.”
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“This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.”
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“In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.”
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“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”
Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.5, Penguin
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“I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.”
Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.
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“By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.”
