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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Epidemic Fashion Induced Nothing
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Aggregate Along Also Each
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To err is human, but it feels divine.

To Err Is Human
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When Am Good Very
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Call Dark Golden Happy
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Accomplish Chief Duty Great
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage Great Institution But
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Man Like Can Be
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

You Only Live Once
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Idea
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Virtue Has It's Own
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Used To Be Snow-white
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Say What You Want
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

When Good Very Good
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

It's Not What But
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Conversation Her Lacks Power
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Woman I'm Very Words
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Opportunity Knocks For Every
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Cultivate Your Curves They
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Forces Threat Nation Great
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Love Prelude Sorrow Headache
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Belong Change Growth Nothing
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

About Awhile Could Devoted
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

Also Baby Compassion Drowning
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Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

American Economic Impact Increasing
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Angry Anything Blaming Creativity
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Always Clothes Doing Felt
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I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Person Modest Confident Very
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Act Ashamed Closet Gonna
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Afraid Appreciate Better Culture
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

About Accepted Away Became
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.

Know Silly Still Think
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

About After Ask Because
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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Felt Life Road Feel
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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