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" Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. "
W. H. Auden
I Can
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" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "
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" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "
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" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "
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" Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. "
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" Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. "
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" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
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" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "
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" No hero is mortal till he dies. "
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" If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. "
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