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" 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. "

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" Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. "

" 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. "

" Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. "

" No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. "

" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "

" A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. "

" 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. "

" No hero is mortal till he dies. "

" 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. "

" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "

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

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" Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. "

" Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. "

" Now is the age of anxiety. "

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

" No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. "

" 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. "

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

" Music is the best means we have of digesting time. "

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" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "

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" It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. "