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The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.


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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.



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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.



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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.



The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



Vice is its own reward.

Vice is its own reward.



Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.



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