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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

About Another Being Christian
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Asking Big George Going
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Am Back Battle Event
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Big Born Celebrity Could
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Adorable Because Father Get
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Always Buddy Cameras Career
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Cannot Dined Love Sleep
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Always Down Jelly Much
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Centuries Figure Glasses Looking
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Anguish Beauty Cutting Edges
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Beautiful Beauty Because Feeble
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Aware Bored Happiness He
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action Either Itself Must
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Grows Likes More Older
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

About Cannot Other People
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Book Each Friends Heart
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Be A Man Fatal Man Manly
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
First Foreign Gifts Humor
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Attached Attachment Corners Ever
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Ageing Altering Aspect Believe
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Behind Body Common Experience
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Country No Country Whole Woman
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Arrange Come Pieces Way
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Among Beings Birth Fellowship
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

How Locked Out Perhaps
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Battered Better Down Likes
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Amazingly Meaning Ordinary Out
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Apparent Being Down Ever
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Believe Lies Living Art
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Days Moments Remember
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Far Fast Fears Light
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing Dropped End Life
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Given Lessons Taken
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Always Between Body Clash
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Chain First Right Mistake
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Alone Boy Company Grown
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cheapest Love Religions
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When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

Realize Alive Live Life
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I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Healthy Happy Mad Philosophy
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Imagine Walking Trip Care
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I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

Idolize Father Mean Worked
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I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Life Career Point Role
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