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Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.


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The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.



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And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?



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The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.



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That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.



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