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" I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. "

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" It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. "

" Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. "

" The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. "

" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "

" Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. "

" No hero is mortal till he dies. "

" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "

" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "

" God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. "

" You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. "

" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "

" 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. "

" In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. "

" Learn from your dreams what you lack. "

" The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. "

" Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. "

" Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. "

" To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? "

" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "

" You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. "

" When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. "

" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "

" Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. "

" A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. "

" History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. "

" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "

" A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. "

" Art is born of humiliation. "